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The Easiest Way to Identify Holidays in Python

How to quickly add features about holidays to your data set

Eryk Lewinson
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 15, 2022

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When working with time data, be it time series analysis or a normal regression/classification task, we can often benefit from knowing whether a particular day was some sort of a holiday or not.

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