# Online course on forecasting using R

I am teaming up with Revolution Analytics to teach an online course on forecasting with R. Topics to be covered include seasonality and trends, exponential smoothing, ARIMA modelling, dynamic regression and state space models, as well as forecast accuracy methods and forecast evaluation techniques such as cross-validation. I will talk about some of my consulting experiences, and explain the tools in the forecast package for R.

The course will run from 21 October to 4 December, for two hours each week. Participants can network and interact with other practitioners through an online community.

The following video provides an introduction to the course:

And these slides give a few more details:

I will assume you already know how to use R. If you don’t, you can quickly get up to speed by doing a few online tutorials.

I will also assume that you know some basic statistics, including multiple regression. You can brush up by reading this chapter from my online book. However, you will not need to know any time series or forecasting.

If you are interested, please register for the course at the following link.

## Register for the course here

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• Stephen

• Try now

• Orlando Mezquita

the same happens to me…

• I’ve informed Revolution Analytics that there are problems. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

• andrewziem

Does the schedule imply the lectures are only live and not available as recordings? In other words, if I am not available Monday at 22UTC, I cannot participate?

• The lectures will also be available to watch in your own time if you are registered. So you do not have to be available for the live streaming, but you do have to register.

• Timothy Scharf

Excited for this

• The registration link is now fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience

• Kevin Little

prerequisite says need access to Revolution R Enterprise edition….since I am not academic, license is $4500 for my Windows platform? thanks • You don’t actually need Revolution R. Just normal R is fine. I’m using Rstudio with regular R underneath. • Kevin Little thank you, i use R Studio and R underneath, do I need to be running R3, my main system is still at 2.15.3 (need some housecleaning!) • R 2.15.3 is ok. • Vikas Agrawal Is this a paid course? • Yes. • Felipe What’s the cost? •$1000

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• Orlando Mezquita

Is there a minimum quorum to provide the course?

• No. I’ll teach it with one person if that’s all I get. But I’m hoping for a few more. 🙂

• tmark

Hi Professor – very interested in this course. I looked at the ‘syllabus’ on revolution analytics and it describes the requirements of using their software. Do i need anything beyond the R installed on my system?

Also, do you have a maximum number of online seats?

Cheers!

• Regular R is fine. You also need the fpp package installed and its dependencies. There is no maximum number (at least not one that is likely to matter)

• Brendan

Not meaning to be negative, since I’m a huge fan of your site, your work and your opensource book, but the cost is relatively high for a non-company sponsored sign-up. Any plans for a lecture series via Coursera in future?

• Fair comment. Unfortunately, my university (Monash) is not a partner at Coursera, Udacity, edX or any other online course provider. So I can’t give a course on any of those free platforms, although I would like to. Revolution Analytics asked me to do this course for them, and I agreed. They set the fees, although most of the money will go to Monash University and it will be used to pay for some support to help me with R package development.

• Great course, but very expensive to me. I’ve to give up 🙁

• MySchizoBuddy

when will the course be available again.

• I hope to do another one, possibly in late 2014.

• David

I see from a previous post that you were thinking about doing the course in late 2014… Any decision on when? Thanks

• It won’t happen this year. Sorry.

• David

Sorry… I was a little vague, especially with the year almost done. Do you see a course being done in 2015? I appreciate your quick response.

• I’ve no plans at this stage.

• george_gt

Dear Professor Hyndman,

Is there any function that works similar to the dlply. I use version 3.1.2 and this is not available.

I would like to select the parameters /coefficients of linear regression ( a,b) [y=a+bx] only transfer to excel