Democratising forecasting workshop

By Dr.  Bahman Rostami-Tabar  Cardiff University- UK     

Coordinator: Dr. Dana Khdr Sabir  Charmo University- Iraq    

Date: 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October, 2018



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                                                Registeration is closed on Thursday 20 September 2018 at 02:30 (UK time).


Democratising forecasting workshop, October 2018, Iraq

The 3rd demcoratising forecasting workshop will take place in Charmo University in October 2018. Democratizing forecasting is a part of Forecasting4Change intiaitive lead by   Bahman Rostami-Tabar. The aim is to share knowledge on forecasting and influence relevant practices prioritising the need of population and the society.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge in statistics;
  • No knowledge of forecasting is assumed.
  • No prior knowledge of R is assumed.

 Participants must bring their own laptop with a recent version of R and RStudio installed, along with the following packages and their dependencies:

  • Download and install R: click here
  • Download and install RStudio: click here

 Program

 Webinar,

  • 21 September 2018
  • Time: 02:30- 03:30 (UK Time)

 Day 1: 01 October 2018

  • R and RStudio Essentials
  • Reports with RMarkdown
  • Data preparation
  • Data manipulation
  • Data visualization

 Day 2: 02 October 2018

  • Forecasting and decision making
  • Time series patterns
  • Forecaster’s toolbox: time series graphics, simple forecasting methods, residual diagnostics, accuracy measurement
  • Exponential smoothing models

 Day 3: 03 October 2018

  • ARIMA models
  • Regression
  • Model selection

 Schedule

  • Start: 09:30 a.m.
  • End: 04:30 p.m.

 Refreshment breaks

  • " Morning: 11:15 - 11:30
  • " Afternoon: 03:30 - 03:45 p.m.
  • Lunch: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.


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