ARTICLE AD BOX
I need to forecast some data to present in Power BI. Previously, I did this in Power BI itself via the Python script visual and the prophet library; however, it turns out that when the report is exported these are replaced with an error message if the report creator isn't a premium subscriber. Thus, I am instead going to forecast the data outside Power BI and then import the forecast.
The raw data is stored in an Azure SQL Server database, so I would like to be able to access it using my existing EF Core setup—hence why I want to switch to performing the forecast with C#.
If it helps, the data is a time series of monthly donations for a nonprofit. It exhibits trend, minor seasonality, and extremely large holiday effects.
