Timeseries Analysis - the Tidyverse Way

Author

George K Agyen

A practical, beginner-friendly guide using tsibble, fable and friends

“📌Target Audience: Beginners in R with basic knowledge of data frames and plotting, but little to no experience in time series analysis.

✔️Tools Used: tidyverse tsibble fable feasts lubridate

📈Datasets: Built-in data from the tsibble package and custom datasets (local gh time series data in csv format)

Welcome

Have you ever looked at a line chart of sales, website traffic, stock prices or weather patterns and thought, “I wonder what happens next?” – then you are in the right place.

In this book, we will take your basic R skills and transform them into real-world forecasting power – all using the clean modern tools of the Tidyverse. No black-box algorithms or confusing jargon. Just a step by step journey into understanding patterns over time and predicting the future with confidence.

Whether you are a student, analyst or data enthusiast, time series skills are essential in your field – and surprisingly accessible. By the end of this guide, you will be able to:

  • Visualise trends and seasonality like a pro.
  • Decompose complex patterns.
  • Build and compare forecasts using smart, automated models.
  • And most importantly explain your results clearly.

So grab your pen and paper (whatever it is you want to grab 😁), fire up RStudio and let’s turn your curiosity into prediction. 📊✨