AroniSmartLytics™ and AroniSmartInvest™: Upcoming Versions with Advanced Time Series Analysis and Forecasted Based on Machine Learning Methodologies

AroniSmart™ team has been working on a major improvement of both AroniSmaLytics (AroniSmartIntelligence) ™  and AroniSmartInvest™. Both tools, built for Mac OS X®  will have modules leveraging the latest advances in Time Series Analysis, Forecasting, and Machine Learning.  

 What is Time Series?

A time series is a set of observations occurring in a temporal order or, in other words, a series of data points in a time order. When a variable is defined at all points in time, the time series is said to be continuous. This includes, for example, the temperature in an area, commodity prices in an open market, or the velocity of a satellite. In practical analyses, a time series is discrete. It is composed of observations or data points, captured at successive equally spaced points in time.

Most of discrete time series are based on aggregation of timely observations over a period. For example, weekly sales, stock daily closing price, daily web downloads, hourly average temperature, monthly salaries, or monthly consumer confidence index measures may form a discrete time series. To analyze time series, several advanced techniques and methodologies have been proposed and have evolved over time.

Accounting for the latest methodological advances, Time series analysis is the process of using statistical and machine learning techniques to model and explain a time-dependent series. Time series analyses include two steps: 

1. Time Series Analysis, for modelling and explaining time related relationships and
2. Forecasting, for predictions based on the past observations.

Time Series, Forecasting, or Both?

Time series analyses and forecasting assume data points are observed at regular time intervals.

In Summary,

Time Series Analysis involves modelling and explaining the following :

•  trend or long-term movement
• cyclical components
• fluctuations about trend of greater or less regularity
• seasonal components
• residual, irregular or random effects

Forecasting leverages time series analysis to:

• mathematically and statistically construct and describe a prediction system
• explain behaviors with overlay, regressor or explanatory variables
• assess scenarios (what ifs).

Time Series Analysis relies on several methodological approaches, mainly including Auto Regressive (AR), Moving Average (MA), Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA), Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Simple or Double Exponential Smoothing (SES/DES), Holt-Winters, ARIMA with explanatory variables or transfer functions (ARIMAX), and Structural models or unobserved components models (UCM), with explanatory variables.

 AroniSmart Time Series module has adopted a machine learning/data mining methodology with a cutting edge, yet intuitive, approach. The graphical user interface has also been improved to include time series analyses (see example sof shows the graphs generated ).

More in store and to be available on Apple's App Store soon.

AroniSmartLytics™ is a leading advanced analytics, machine learning and data science tool, with optimized cutting edge statistics models, Big Data and Text Analytics.

AroniSmartLytics™ includes modules covering machine learning and Big Data mining, Unstructured Text Analysis, Sentiment and Emotion Analytics, Bayesian Statistics and other advanced analytics.

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