Need to do a Forecast? Try Facebook Prophet

Just getting back from a short sabbatical studying Python, R, and other machine learning tools.  One of my discoveries was Facebook Prophet. 

It's sort of a strange name.  But Facebook has released a very nice forecasting model they have been using with staff around their organization.  The following article announces this open source tool.  

Prophet: forecasting at scale:

The following podcast is a discussion with the creator of the tool.

Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 35 - Special Guest Sean Taylor
 
If you have a forecasting opportunity with for example attendance in the museum context or web server load, really anything with a bunch or dates and numbers, this tool could be very helpful.
 
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have questions.  I would love to hear about any successes or failures you might have as well.  
 
--Tom


[edited by: Tom Brown at 9:48 AM (GMT -6) on 17 Apr 2017]