How (not) to use Machine Learning for time series forecasting: Avoiding the pitfalls

Vegard Flovik
Towards Data Science
10 min readJun 7, 2018

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In my other posts, I have covered topics such as: How to combine machine learning and physics, and how machine learning can be used for production optimization, supply chain management as well as anomaly detection and condition monitoring. But in this post, I will discuss some of the common pitfalls of machine learning for time series forecasting.

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