Forecasting with Machine Learning

Authors

  • Dr. Osman Mohamed Abbas

Keywords:

forecasting, machine learning, accuracy.

Abstract

For years, people have been forecasting weather patterns, economic and political events, sports outcomes, and more. In this paper we discussed the ways of using machine learning in forecasting, machine learning is a branch of computer science where algorithms learn from data. The fundamental problem for machine learning and time series is the same: to predict new outcomes based on previously known results. Using the suitable technique of machine learning depend on how much data you have, how noisy the data is, and what kind of new features can be derived from the data. But these techniques can improve accuracy and don’t have to be difficult to implement.

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2017-08-19

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Abbas, D. O. M. (2017). Forecasting with Machine Learning. International Journal of Computer (IJC), 26(1), 184–194. Retrieved from https://www.ijcjournal.org/index.php/InternationalJournalOfComputer/article/view/1040

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