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I've got 1325 days of revenue data and when plotting the components it makes 100% sense from a domain expert point of view, so the model is capturing the variations quite well (or it seems it does...). I've added the country holidays using m.add_country_holidays(country_name='GB')

However, when it comes to accuracy I'm getting the following averages:

MAPE: 0.3
MAE: 721,415

721,415 is not an acceptable error. Around 100K would be.

These are the MAE and MAPE plots: MAE

MAPE

Time-series plot: time-series

Performance metrics (first 20):

performance metrics

What else can I do to improve the accuracy of this model? Thank you

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  • $\begingroup$ It might be helpful to outline the process you've followed so far - e.g. what are you trying to predict, any transformations applied to the target, and the model parameterisation. $\endgroup$
    – bradS
    Nov 20, 2019 at 12:07
  • $\begingroup$ I haven't applied any transformation to the target or modified any parameter. Prophet model is quite straightforward and automatic. It only needs 2 columns, date and number, which, in my case are revenue figures. $\endgroup$
    – raulb1
    Nov 20, 2019 at 14:03
  • $\begingroup$ Can you include a plot of the time-series data and the predictions made by your model? $\endgroup$
    – zachdj
    Nov 20, 2019 at 14:27
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    $\begingroup$ Your target looks very noisy - it seems to fluctuate between 1m and 5m. Maybe you should consider applying some sort of transformation. There also seem to be massive downward spikes (2017, 2018, 2019)... have you taken a look at these in any detail? $\endgroup$
    – bradS
    Nov 20, 2019 at 16:14
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    $\begingroup$ I would start with something like the log (base of your choice, 10 or e is common). I would also consider removing the Christmas data and treating it separately - it looks to be an outlier and is likely distorting the modelling. $\endgroup$
    – bradS
    Nov 21, 2019 at 9:17

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The data here is bit noisy and has a lot of fluctuations. As a few of the comments suggest, apply some transformation on it. I would say get your data in some smaller range and then apply a LSTM to predict it. I made time-series work with a LSTM with removal of noise by eliminating outliers and it worked with nice further prediction.

RNNs tend to work better with time-series data especially bidirectional-LSTM due to their backwards learning capabilities.

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I do not recommend DNNs for the noisy data! Actually, probably it is the worst algorithm to deal with noisy data. Here is a solution:

  1. Try to smoothen your data. There are many algorithms such as Kernel ridge.

  2. Reproduce the smoothen data.

  3. Learn the smoothen data and predict a smoothen curve which indicates the most probable interval in which, the future values will come.

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