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Forecasting: Trend Analysis and Pattern Detection

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Introduction

The Hobby School data visualization tools make use of a variety of methods to perform trend analysis and pattern detection.  These methods give users the ability to perform data analysis beyond that of simple visualization.  In many cases, the future behavior of a system or sample group may be more important than its current behavior, which also includes detecting when a specific behavior may have periodically occurred in the past.