An Introduction to Time-series Analysis Using Python and Pandas

Author(s): Oscar Arzamendia

Originally published on Towards AI.

Assumptions

Very recently I had the opportunity to work on building a sales forecaster as a POC. It was a challenging project with a cool MVP as an outcome, and through this post, I will share part of my journey and findings on analyzing the data I was provided with.

I will assume you have previous knowledge of both Python and Pandas.

This project started like every other data science project: by checking the data we had in hand. I did this by importing the CSV file provided as data source.

path_to_csv = r'path\to\csv\file.csv'data_df = pd.read_csv(path_to_csv)data_df.head()

Once I had a clear idea of how the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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