Abstract: 

A look under the hood at the newly open sourced Prophet tool for doing time-series forecasts.

Bio: 

Isaac Laughlin is the Managing Lead Instructor of the Data Science Immersive program at Galvanize in San Francisco. Prior to focusing on teaching, he was a Senior Data Scientist at TrueCar.com where he worked on everything from marketing optimization to price prediction. His interest in both python and time-series began when he worked at the Federal Reserve Board over 10 years ago.