forecasting

Finding weather data to use for training a neural network

I'm looking for some downloadable weather data i can use to train a neural network to do forecasting, where can i find some? Basically things like temperature, humidity, wind speed/direction, anything and everything that might help a neural network do simple forecasting. ...

R: ARIMA, ARMA and AICs?

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Standard error of the ARIMA constant

I am trying to manually calculate the standard error of the constant in an ARIMA model, if it is included. I have referred to Box and Jenkins (1994) text, specially Section 7.2, but my understanding is that the methods mentioned here calculates the variance-covariance matrix for the ARIMA parameters only, not the constant. Tried searchin...

Displaying a Forecast Widget on a website

Hello guys, I am looking for displaying Forecast information in my Django Website. Do you have any idea of how I can do that ? I looked at https://registration.weather.com/ursa/wow/ but it is in english and I didn't find anyway to put it in French. I looked at libgweather, but it didn't helps me a lot. Do you know how I can do that ?...

Explaining the forecasts from an ARIMA model

I am trying to explain to myself the forecasting result from applying an ARIMA model to a time-series dataset. The data is from the M1-Competition, the series is MNB65. For quick reference, I have a google doc spreadsheet with the data. I am trying to fit the data to an ARIMA(1,0,0) model and get the forecasts. I am using R. Here are som...

The future of .NET Development: ASP.NET or WPF/Silverlight/Winforms?

Forgive me for asking a subjective question but I'd really like to know where is the .NET development headed in the near future? Are we going to see more ASP.NET developers or will there be more demand for Silverlight/WPF && WinForms developers? ...

Looking for an estimation method (data analysis)

Hi! Since I have no idea about what I am doing right now, my wording may sound funny. But seriously, I need to learn. The problem I'm facing is to come up with a method (model) to estimate how a software program works: namely running time and maximal memory usage. What I already have are a large amount of data. This data set gives an o...

Silverlight or jQuery? Choosing the technology for the future.

Will jQuery together with HTML5 be the technology of the future? Or will Silverlight dominate the internet market share with the upcoming versions 5 and 6? Do you think it' safe to pick either technology if I have no specific preference for jQuery or Silverlight? EDIT: Please don't vote for [Close]. I am looking for valid and construct...

HoltWinters on Panel Data

I am trying to run the HoltWinters procedure on panel data to come up with sales forecasts for a list of companies. My data frame has the fields "Company", "Year" and "Sales". I am interested in adding an extra column to this data frame that shows fitted sales obtained using HoltWinters. For a single company, the exercise is trivial as ...