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> attributing everything you can’t explain to “seasonality” Is this a literal thing or figurative thing? Because it should be very easy to see the seasons if y
by 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
> attributing everything you can’t explain to “seasonality”
Is this a literal thing or figurative thing? Because it should be very easy to see the seasons if you have a few years of data.
I just attribute all the data I don't like to noise :-)
- xboxnolifes 2y agoJust because something happens on a yearly cadence doesn't mean that "seasonality" is a good reasoning. It's just restating that it happens on a yearly cadence, it doesn't actually explain why it happens.
- hammock 2y agoPresented as a literal thing, but is really figurative. What I mean is, often you don’t have the data to actually plot/PCA/whatever technique the seasonality, maybe you only have 2 years of data for example. But it dips in October and you have no idea why so you just say “Q4 tends to be a low season for this product” or something equally dubious, with no further analysis or hope of same