Stat 4840/5084

Time Series

Updated

General Information

Forecast Contest Scoreboard

Spring 2025

Past semesters: Spring 2024, Spring 2023

Course Materials

Data

  • Weekly influenza mortality report for the US. flu-weekly.csv (Source: CDC FluView)
  • Google search interest in the term 'skiing' in the U.S. and New Zealand since 2004. skiing-us-nz.csv (Source: Google Trends)
  • CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, the Keeling curve: co2_mm_mlo.csv. (Source: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory)
  • SLU Calculus 1 enrollments: calc1-enrollment.csv
  • Mississippi river flow at St. Louis Missouri: mississippi-discharge.csv. (Source: USGS National Water Information System)
  • Brucellosis cases in China: brucellosis.csv. (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
  • FRED estimate of paper sales: paper_sales.csv. (Source: FRED blog Paper sales in a digital world. Note that quantity is really an estimate of paper-related office supply and stationery products, with meaningless units.)
  • Top games on Steam, 2012-2021: steam.csv. (Source: Kaggle, Steam Monthly Player Data). See also extremes-steam-plots.pdf, showing games with extreme ACF values.
  • Arabica and Robusta Coffee beans: Coffee_train.csv and Coffee_test.csv. (Source: UCR Time Series Classification Archive, originally from Briandet, Kemsley, Wilson, 1996)
  • Ford engine noise: FordA_train.csv and FordA_test.csv. (Source: UCR Time Series Classification Archive)