Forecasting Oil Futures with SARIMAX: A Simple and “Crude” Approach

Introduction A few weeks ago, I published a post on predicting Avocado Prices that, I thought, turned out pretty well using the SARIMAX algorithm in the Statsmodels library in Python.  Shortly afterward, while on a trip to Houston, I was talking about that blog post with

Week 3 Fantasy Predictions vs Actual Points

Photo Courtesy of Bruce Kluckhohn/AP As triumphant as my win was in the final game of Week 2, I knew by mid-afternoon on Week 3 that my Fantasy Football week was going to be a bad one.  Like the picture above, my Fantasy

Time Series Analysis with Avocados

Recently, I’ve been looking at datasets to help study up on Time-Series Analysis.  Time-Series was something that was taught late in the Data Science Bootcamp I attended earlier this year, and since we were knee deep in our own capstones, it wasn’t