Nairobi, Kenya

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Strategic Time Series Analytics for Business Forecasting

This advanced training equips professionals with the analytical techniques required to interpret historical business data, identify patterns, build forecasting models, and support data-driven decision...

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3 upcoming sessions in the next 3 months

Nov 23 - Nov 27
Dec 28 - Jan 01
Jan 25 - Jan 29
Programme Overview
Training Description

Who Should Attend

  • Financial analysts
  • Economists
  • Business intelligence professionals
  • Planning and forecasting professionals
  • Finance and FP&A professionals
  • Supply chain and demand planners
  • Risk analysts
  • Marketing analytics professionals
  • Operations managers
  • Strategy and planning professionals
  • Business intelligence managers
  • Professionals responsible for forecasting and data-driven decision-making
 
 
 
Session Objectives
  • Understand the fundamentals of time series forecasting with advanced techniques.
  • Master ARIMA models for statistical time series forecasting.
  • Utilize LSTM networks for deep learning time series forecasting.
  • Implement advanced forecasting methods (e.g., Prophet, SARIMA, VAR).
  • Design and build forecasting models for various time series data.
  • Optimize forecasting models for accuracy and performance.
  • Troubleshoot and address complex time series forecasting challenges.
  • Implement model evaluation and validation techniques for time series.
  • Integrate forecasting models into real-world applications.
  • Understand how to tune hyperparameters for optimal forecasting.
  • Explore advanced feature engineering techniques for time series.
  • Apply real world use cases for ARIMA and LSTM forecasting.
  • Leverage time series libraries for efficient model implementation.
About the Course


This advanced training equips professionals with the analytical techniques required to interpret historical business data, identify patterns, build forecasting models, and support data-driven decision-making. It focuses on applying time series analytics to sales, revenue, demand, financial performance, inventory, customer activity, and other business indicators.Participants will explore trend and seasonality analysis, stationarity, autocorrelation, forecasting models, model selection, anomaly detection, forecasting accuracy, and scenario analysis. The course also introduces modern machine learning approaches for time series forecasting and emphasizes translating analytical results into practical business strategies.

Curriculum & Topics

15 Topics | 74 Sessions

  • play Workshop 1.1: Fundamentals of time series forecasting with advanced techniques.

  • play Workshop 1.2: Overview of ARIMA, LSTM, and other advanced methods.

  • play Workshop 1.3: Setting up a time series forecasting development environment.

  • play Workshop 1.4: Introduction to time series libraries and tools.

  • play Workshop 1.5: Best practices for advanced forecasting.

  • play Workshop 2.1: Implementing ARIMA models for time series data.

  • play Workshop 2.2: Utilizing ACF and PACF for model selection.

  • play Workshop 2.3: Designing and building ARIMA forecasting pipelines.

  • play Workshop 2.4: Optimizing ARIMA models for prediction accuracy.

  • play Workshop 2.5: Best practices for ARIMA.

  • play Workshop 3.1: Implementing LSTM networks for time series forecasting.

  • play Workshop 3.2: Utilizing sequence data processing for LSTM models.

  • play Workshop 3.3: Designing and building LSTM forecasting models.

  • play Workshop 3.4: Optimizing LSTM models for time series prediction.

  • play Workshop 3.5: Best practices for LSTM.

  • play Workshop 4.1: Implementing Prophet for time series forecasting.

  • play Workshop 4.2: Utilizing SARIMA for seasonal time series data.

  • play Workshop 4.3: Implementing VAR for multivariate time series.

  • play Workshop 4.4: Designing and building hybrid forecasting models.

  • play Workshop 4.5: Best practices for advanced methods.

  • play Workshop 5.1: Designing forecasting models for specific time series data.

  • play Workshop 5.2: Implementing model architectures for various forecasting tasks.

  • play Workshop 5.3: Utilizing feature engineering for time series data.

  • play Workshop 5.4: Optimizing model design for forecasting accuracy.

  • play Workshop 5.5: Best practices for model design.

  • play Workshop 6.1: Optimizing forecasting models for accuracy and performance.

  • play Workshop 6.2: Utilizing hyperparameter tuning techniques.

  • play Workshop 6.3: Implementing model validation and cross-validation.

  • play Workshop 6.4: Designing scalable forecasting solutions.

  • play Workshop 6.5: Best practices for model optimization.

  • play Workshop 7.1: Debugging complex forecasting issues.

  • play Workshop 7.2: Analyzing model performance and errors.

  • play Workshop 7.3: Utilizing troubleshooting techniques for model improvement.

  • play Workshop 7.4: Resolving common forecasting challenges.

  • play Workshop 7.5: Best practices for troubleshooting.

  • play Workshop 8.1: Implementing evaluation metrics for time series forecasting.

  • play Workshop 8.2: Utilizing cross-validation techniques for time series models.

  • play Workshop 8.3: Designing and building model validation pipelines.

  • play Workshop 8.4: Optimizing model evaluation strategies.

  • play Workshop 8.5: Best practices for model evaluation.

  • play Workshop 9.1: Integrating forecasting models into production systems.

  • play Workshop 9.2: Utilizing APIs and deployment tools for forecasting.

  • play Workshop 9.3: Implementing real-time forecasting applications.

  • play Workshop 9.4: Optimizing models for deployment environments.

  • play Workshop 9.5: Best practices for integration.

  • play Workshop 10.1: Utilizing grid search and random search for tuning.

  • play Workshop 10.2: Implementing Bayesian optimization for hyperparameter selection.

  • play Workshop 10.3: Designing and building hyperparameter tuning pipelines.

  • play Workshop 10.4: Optimizing hyperparameters for model performance.

  • play Workshop 10.5: Best practices for hyperparameter tuning.

  • play Workshop 11.1: Implementing feature extraction techniques for time series.

  • play Workshop 11.2: Utilizing time-lagged features and rolling statistics.

  • play Workshop 11.3: Designing and building feature engineering pipelines.

  • play Workshop 11.4: Optimizing feature engineering for forecasting accuracy.

  • play Workshop 11.5: Best practices for feature engineering.

  • play Workshop 12.1: Implementing ARIMA and LSTM for financial forecasting.

  • play Workshop 12.2: Utilizing advanced methods for demand forecasting in retail.

  • play Workshop 12.3: Implementing forecasting models for energy consumption.

  • play Workshop 12.4: Utilizing forecasting for predicting website traffic.

  • play Workshop 12.5: Best practices for real-world applications.

  • play Workshop 13.1: Utilizing statsmodels for ARIMA and statistical forecasting.

  • play Workshop 13.2: Implementing TensorFlow and PyTorch for LSTM models.

  • play Workshop 13.3: Designing and building forecasting pipelines with libraries.

  • play Workshop 13.4: Optimizing library usage for efficient implementation.

  • play Workshop 13.5: Best practices for library implementation.

  • play Workshop 14.1: Implementing model interpretability techniques for time series.

  • play Workshop 14.2: Utilizing visualization tools for model understanding.

  • play Workshop 14.3: Designing and building interpretable forecasting models.

  • play Workshop 14.4: Optimizing model transparency.

  • play Workshop 14.5: Best practices for model interpretability.

  • play Workshop 15.1: Emerging trends in time series forecasting.

  • play Workshop 15.2: Utilizing deep learning for long-range forecasting.

  • play Workshop 15.3: Implementing automated machine learning (AutoML) for time series.

  • play Workshop 15.4: Best practices for future forecasting.

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