Simple Exponential Smoothing for Time Series Forecasting

Simple exponential smoothing is a simple — yet powerful — method to forecast a time series. Moreover, it is used as a building block by many other models. Let’s see how it works.

Nicolas Vandeput
Towards Data Science
8 min readNov 12, 2019

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This article is an extract from my book Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting. You can read my other articles here. I am also active on LinkedIn.

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Consultant, Trainer, Author. I reduce forecast error by 30% 📈 and inventory levels by 20% 📦. Contact me: linkedin.com/in/vandeputnicolas