Time series forecasting with Prophet (Coursera)

You will begin by creating a data set of historical stock prices for Microsoft in Google Sheets. You will then learn how to load the sheet in Python where you'll subsequently explore and preprocess the data set.
After that, you will dive right into Prophet. You'll become familiar with the key features of Prophet, and why it is preferred over other libraries. You'll learn about the basic forecasting procedure, options for model construction, adding custom seasonalities and holidays, and hyperparameter tuning for obtaining optimal results.
This Guided Project was created by a Coursera community member.

In this Guided Project, you will:

• Create a stock price data set
• Build a model in Prophet to forecast stock prices
• Optimize model performance through hyperparameter tuning

Learn step-by-step

1. Create your own time series data set in Google Sheets
2. Link a Google Sheet to a Python program in the Google Colab environment
3. Create and forecast with a simple Prophet model
4. Tweak the model's parameters in Prophet to improve your forecasts by adding custom seasonalities and holidays
5. Automatically tune your model’s parameter to optimize the model’s performance so you get the best results for your data set
6. Save your model for future use, and retrain it if needed, for example when future data arrives