Context

Gold, the yellow shiny metal, has been the fancy of mankind since ages. From making jewelry to being used as an investment, gold covers a huge spectrum of use cases. Gold, like other metals, is also traded on the commodities indexes across the world. For better understanding time series in a real-world scenario, we will work with gold prices collected historically and predict its future value.

Content

Metals such as gold have been traded for years across the world. Prices of gold are determined and used for trading the metal on commodity exchanges on a daily basis using a variety of factors. Using this daily price-level information only, our task is to predict future price of gold.

Data

For the purpose of implementing time series forecasting technique , i will utilize gold pricing from Quandl. Quandl is a platform for financial, economic, and alternative datasets. To access publicly shared datasets on Quandl, we can use the pandas-datareader library as well as quandl (library from Quandl itself). The following snippet shows a quick one-liner to get your hands on gold pricing information since 1970s.

import quandl gold_df = quandl.get("BUNDESBANK/BBK01_WT5511")

The time series is univariate with date and time feature

Starter Kernel(s)

-Start with Fundamentals: TSA & Box-Jenkins Methods

This notebook is an overview of TSA and traditional methods

Acknowledgements

For this dataset and tasks, i will depend upon Quandl. The premier source for financial, economic, and alternative datasets, serving investment professionals. Quandl’s platform is used by over 400,000 people, including analysts from the world’s top hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks.

Inspiration

• Forecast gold price

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Context

Soy beans are a major agricultural crop.

Content

Compilation of Soybean prices and factors that effect soybean prices. Daily data. Temp columns are daily temperatures of the major U.S. grow areas. Production and Area are the annual counts from each country (2018 being the estimates). Prices of commodities are from CME futures and are NOT adjusted for inflation. Updates of these CME futures can be found on Quandl. Additional data could be added, such as, interest rates, country currency prices, country import data, country temperatures.

More raw data I used to assemble this.
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Acknowledgements

https://www.quandl.com/

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