Bring a laptop to the class every week if you have one. We encourage students to work collaboratively, so we would like to have at least one laptop for every 2 or 3 students. Since the forecasting competition is the work of a team, we encourage you to team-up with students that possess a laptop. In the case you plan to buy a laptop, remember that the students from Swiss Universities have preferential prices via the Neptun Projekt or the EPFL’s Poseidon.
You do not need to buy a laptop if you do not possess one.
Most of this class is based on the online textbook:
Other useful references are at the resources page.
All the software we will be using are free for acamedic activities. The course will use the R statistical computing language. The integrated developer environment that we will use to explore R is RStudio IDE made by RStudio Inc.