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mgontav

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    Comment #21631699

    This was pretty much my experience as well: had to build a small scraper 2 years ago to alert me whenever spots for camping became available in Yosemite. Bear in mind that this was…

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    Comment #13754851

    Thanks for reporting it, we believe to have fixed it in the meanwhile, feel free to keep testing.

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    Comment #13746488

    Sure thing, shoot me an email at mgontav@unplu.gg and we'll see how we can help you out.

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    Comment #13746015

    Well, if we provide confidence intervals it should provide some kind of "safety"... but even so, with forecasting the only assurance you can get is by testing it against known hist…

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    Comment #13745737

    We've been expecting this question all day long. As fate has it, we have no connection to FB's Prophet - we at Whitesmith have been working on unplugg for some time now and decided…

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    Comment #13745554

    Remnants of working with energy consumption and smart meter data - our examples are still a bit focused on that. On the other hand, the current version is able to handle distinct/h…

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    Comment #13745272

    Yeah, it's kind of verbose right now :p We'll get around to it when we make sure the forecast is the best it can be. EDIT: But XML payloads are actually a really useful idea, it's …

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    Comment #13745242

    We could return a confidence interval for the forecasted values, you're right, it can help in cases where it would be used for simple anomaly detection (and it would give a greater…

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    Comment #13745122

    Not really. We're directing this more towards a completely automated use-case of forecasting with no human interaction, so it's not on our plans to release internal parameterizatio…

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    Comment #13744870

    Cool! Get back to us with feedback on how it went, we're looking for as much input as possible at this point.

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    Comment #13744812

    Hey, you can still try it out as is, just request an API key and start using it. Unless you're worried about sending data out into unknown servers... in that case I can assure you …

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    Comment #13744732

    Our goal is to keep it as simple as we can, keeping the worries about model selection and tuning on our side as much as possible, therefore we don't go much into those details. I c…

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    Comment #13743917

    We allow for you to specify the limit of the forecasting period, so you can experiment with that. However, due to how we model the forecast, it isn't realistic to expect ultra-long…

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