On May 1-4th, 2018, data scientists from around the world gathered in Boston, Massachusetts for the fourth annual Open Data Science Conference East. With over 4,500 attendees hailing from academia, business, nonprofit sectors, and government, the conference marked one of ODSC's largest and most diverse gatherings to date. The 4-day conference hosted over 200 speakers and presentations as well as numerous workshops on topics ranging from specific concepts in machine learning and artificial intelligence to the application of data science principles in medical research, for-profit enterprise, and humanitarian causes. Dozens of core contributors to the most prominent open source data science tools, libraries, and languages gave practical demonstrations and shared their expertise including Dr. Drew Conway, Professor Gary Marcus and Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland. Of the hundreds of talks, a series of talks was available via live stream to the global ODSC community.

Forecasting is a core part of time series analysis as it tries tries to predict the value of the analysed signal. Forecasting is one of the hardest problems in predictive analytics because it's not always obvious what attributes can explain the future values of the signal and because you often will have less data than you would like to have, for example, if you have monthly data over a 4 year period you will basically have 48 data points. As time series analysis data is temporal, you will often have one data points per timestamp. The motto, "the more data the better," is true only up to a certain point, particularly when running a time series analysis. Adding more data can actually negatively impact your model.

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