Road accidents in Switzerland forecasting -- A brief comparison between Facebook Prophet and LSTM

For many years, the capacity of predicting the future was reserved to few people and their tools were limited to crystal balls, hand palms and tarot cards. But for the last 50 years, new tools have emerged and forecasting is now accessible to many more people and this is great! In this article, I will show you how to perform basic timeseries forecasting on a simple example. We will analyze, visualize and forecast road accidents in Switzerland using the open-source library Facebook Prophet and a LSTM neural network using Keras / Tensorflow. The jupyter notebooks I used for this article are available on my github.