Democratising forecasting workshop in Uganda

Last updated on Mar 20, 2020 Democratising_forecasting

The 6^th 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.

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.

Forecasting R Workshop