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Prophet
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Prophet
Free
open-source forecasting software · R and Python implementations
Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
On the record
- Adjustability
- Users can tune forecasts with human-interpretable parameters and add domain knowledge.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Best suited to
- The project says Prophet works best with time series that have strong seasonal effects and several seasons of historical data.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Features
- The documentation covers country holidays, custom seasonalities, additional regressors, uncertainty intervals, and cross-validation.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Implementations
- Prophet has R and Python implementations that share Stan code for fitting.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The project documents installation through CRAN for R and PyPI or conda-forge for Python.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the project license as MIT.github.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Maintenance
- The repository says that as of v1.4.0 Prophet is in maintenance mode, accepting bug fixes, dependency updates, and R parity changes, with no new features planned.github.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Platform setup
- The installation guide says Windows R installation requires a compiler and Rtools, and Windows Python installation with cmdstanpy requires a Unix-compatible C compiler.github.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Prophet is a forecasting procedure for time series data with non-linear trends, yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, and holiday effects.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Robustness
- The project says Prophet is robust to missing data and trend shifts and typically handles outliers well.facebook.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Runtime requirements
- The installation guide says Python use requires at least version 3.7 and a VM needs at least 4 GB memory to install and 2 GB to use Prophet.github.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to its documentation and GitHub issue tracker for help and contributions.github.com · read 9 Oct 2026
