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Challenge #24: ARIMA Time Series

dsmdavid
Bolide

As mentioned by others, slightly different values -- I changed "units" to double to be able to use the decimals in the average. Took me ages to realize I needed the TS forecast to visualize output...

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Predictive can vex and perplex me... but here it is. Solution attached.

 

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jasperlch
Quasar

Solution attached.

datavizbro
Atome

Done! In my solution I first checked how the ARIMA performed against the ETS model by scoring each against the last 6 weeks of withheld data and then used the scored ARIMA model's settings instead of AUTO settings as these may be different to the scored model. This is perhaps the reason why some get slightly different results as the settings aren't set manually.

dsmdavid
Bolide

Slightly different results, partly because I changed Units to "double" to take the monthly/yearly average 

michalsicak
Météore

my solution is very similar to some of the others. time series forecast made easy! 

 

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aclaxton
Astéroïde

That was a fun one! I might have to bring this tool combo into my daily work...

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MaxGiegerich
Astéroïde

Also got some minor differences to the answer due to field type rounding I believe. Thanks!

JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Challenge Completed

KOBoyle
Bolide

Solution attached. The was my first exposure to the predictive tools, and it was very useful. I first did this problem a couple of months ago, and it worked fine. However, I was reviewing it recently on a new laptop, and the ARIMA tool was throwing an error. I see that a couple of others have encountered the error too.

 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Advanced-Analytics/ARIMA-Error-in-searchDir-dbDir-lang-expecting-a-...

 

I hope Alteryx can figure out how to reproduce and resolve it.

 

-Ken