Prophet: Can prophet deal with hourly data?

[wangyifan1004]

I have hourly electric load data from 2011 to 2013 and I want to predict the next 3 days hourly data. What should I do using prophet?

[wujushan]

In python, when you call the function 'make_future_dataframe',you can set the parameter 'freq' to 'H' and 'periods' to 72.Like the following:
future = m.make_future_dataframe(freq='H',periods=72)
forecasts = m.predict(future)

[wangyifan1004]

@wujushan
thks! I can use your method to predict hourly data,but the result seems to be really weird.
This is the power of Jan 1st to Jan 3th in 2013

but my result of prediction is something like this:

Is it possible this prophet can not fit the hourly data? because Daily data in area of load forecasting has a strong cyclical.

[jeslago]

Please refer to #29. Support for hourly data will be included in next releases.

[wangyifan1004]

@jeslago Thank you！ Looking forward to it!

[ofir887]

@wangyifan1004
Hi !
How did you plot the hourly graph you attached on top ?