How to Encode Periodic Time Features

Thoughtful processing of dates, days of the week and times of day for deep learning and other prediction models.

Many prediction tasks require time information as model input. Think of a regression model to forecast lemonade sales of a retail company (you might remember the example from my article about context enriched features). The demand for refreshing drinks is obviously higher in summer resulting in a periodic sales curve with peaks in July/August (thinking of a …

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