Improving Forecasting for Programmers

Using computers to forecast is a common task. Forecasting can mean many different things but in this case I mean “making a prediction on what number X will be at time Y”. Examples include “how many movie tickets will we sell next week at all 50 locations” or “what will be the price of all the ingredients in our burrito be in January” Basically 1/4 of what people use spreadsheets for is…