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Spatiotemporal Forecasting At Scale, Rafael Felipe Nascimento De Aguiar

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Spatiotemporal forecasting can be described as predicting the future value of a variable given when and where it will happen. This type of forecasting task has the potential to aid many institutions and businesses in asking questions, such as how many people will visit a given hospital in the next hour. Answers to these questions have the potential to spur significant socioeconomic impact, providing privacy-friendly short-term forecasts about geolocated events, which in turn can help entities to plan and operate more efficiently. These seemingly simple questions, however, present complex challenges to forecasting systems. With more GPS-enabled devices connected every year, …