Monte Carlo Simulations in Python: Analysing Web Page Views

A Monte Carlo simulation uses random sampling to generate a probability distribution modelling potential outcomes for a variable of interest.

Michael Grogan
Towards Data Science
4 min readJul 17, 2020

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This method is highly used in areas such as finance, in order to model various risk scenarios.

However, the method does also have significant application in other facets of time series analysis. In this particular example, let’s take a look at how a Monte Carlo simulation…

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