Forecasting iPad Sales using Facebook's Prophet

The past couple of days I've been playing around with Facebook's Prophet, a time series forecasting package.

I used Prophet to forecast quarterly sales of the Apple iPad, all in about 30 lines of Python. The repository for my code is here, and here's a Jupyter notebook that walks through how it works.

It's a lot of fun, and you get nice little visualizations like this one:

Check it out!