A Hands-On Introduction to Time Series Classification (with Python Code)

What could potentially be the use of doing that? These are just some of the questions you must have had when you read the title of this article. And it's only fair – I had the exact same thoughts when I first came across this concept! The time series data most of us are exposed to deals primarily with generating forecasts. Whether that's predicting the demand or sales of a product, the count of passengers in an airline or the closing price of a particular stock, we are used to leveraging tried and tested time series techniques for forecasting requirements.