Forecasting in R Visual / R Custom Visual / Power Query / Line Chart
Many faces of forecasting ...
Attached sample contains 4 fifferent ways to perform forecasting with exponential smoothing algorithm.
1) Using R-powered Custom Visual
2) Using R-visual
3) Using R-in-Power Query (data transform with R)
4) Using new "forecasting" option in good old Line Chart
Do not forget to install required R packages
The R code inside Power Query step is also attached (and also accessible in PBIX)
3 Replies
- perporHelper V
Thanks very interesting, it demonstrates the potentialities of the product that many people can not understand at the moment
- CognosbenFrequent Visitor
Why are the dates in the resultset skewed? Originally they are all first days of each month, as the first one in the screenshot below.
- boefratyMicrosoft Employee
The algorithm only works with equally spaced dates. Therefore the original dates are resampled to become equally sampled in the range from first to last dates