Bug#892111: RFP: prophet -- time series forecasting package for R and Python

[Daniel Stender <debian@danielstender.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : prophet
  Version         : 0.2.1
  Upstream Author : Ben Letham <bletham@fb.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/facebook/prophet
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: R, Python
  Description     : time series forecasting package for R and Python

Prophet [1] is a procedure for forecasting time series data. It is based on an additive model
where non-linear trends are fit with yearly and weekly seasonality, plus holidays. It works best
with daily periodicity data with at least one year of historical data. Prophet is robust to missing
data, shifts in the trend, and large outliers.

German article on Prophet in recent iX Magazine 03/2018, p. 94 sq.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/prophet/