Democratising forecasting workshop in Uganda

The 6th demcoratising forecasting workshop will take place in Makerere University Business School in April 2019. Democratising forecasting is an intiaitive lead by Bahman Rostami-Tabar. The aim is to share knownoledge on forecasting and influence relevant practices prioritising the need of population and the society.

Register here

Registeration is closed on Friday 5th April 2019 at 02:30 (UK time).

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge in statistics;
  • No knowledge of forecasting is assumed.
  • No prior knowledge of R is assumed.
  • Attending the webinar.

Participants must bring their own laptop with a recent version of R and RStudio installed, along with the following packages and their dependencies:

  • Download and install R: click here
  • Download and install RStudio: click here

Program

Webinar

  • 08 April 2019
  • Time: 02:30- 03:30 (UK Time)

Day 1: 23 April 2019

  • R and RStudio Essentials
  • Reports with RMarkdown
  • Data preparation
  • Data manipulation
  • Data visualization

Day 2: 24 April 2019

  • Forecasting and decision making
  • Time series patterns
  • Forecaster’s toolbox: time series graphics, simple forecasting methods, residual diagnostics, accuracy measurement

Day 3: 25 April 2019

  • ARIMA models
  • Exponential smoothing models
  • Regression

Schedule

  • Start: 09:30 a.m.
  • End: 04:45 p.m.

Refreshment breaks

  • Morning: 11:15 - 11:30
  • Afternoon: 03:30 - 03:45 p.m.
  • Lunch: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Professor of Data-Driven Decision Science