Predictive Models for Time Series Analysis

Components, transformations, and predictive models for time series, from DTW-based kNN to kernel- and dictionary-based approaches.

Programme Ph.D. in AI for Society
Degree PhD
Institution University of Pisa
Academic year 2025/2026
Period Semester 2 (30 Apr – 19 May 2026)
Timetable 30/04/2026 – 19/05/2026
Hours 24
Credits 3 CFU
Level Introductory (no or few prerequisites)
Exam Project
Location MS Teams (online)
Lecturers Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti
Contact francesco.spinnato@unipi.it, riccardo.guidotti@unipi.it
Official page course catalogue
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Lectures

The full content of the course is available on the Teams channel linked above, after approval.

Each lecture is 4 hours. The notebooks expect the datasets in a data/ folder next to them: download data.zip.

Date Lecture Slides / Code
30/04/2026 Introduction & Preprocessing course intro · slides · notebook · exercise
05/05/2026 Distances, Approximation & Global Features slides · notebook · exercise
07/05/2026 Classification & Regression, Part 1 slides · notebook · exercise
12/05/2026 Classification & Regression, Part 2 slides · notebook · exercise
14/05/2026 Forecasting slides · notebook · exercise
19/05/2026 In-class Project