99% Accuracy last week by Yoghurt.io & Wikipedia Predictions till 12 August 17

Akhil Sharma
2 min readAug 8, 2017

Last week we had been able to hit the 99% accuracy again and now let’s see how much accurate we would be for our pageviews predictions for next week from 06 August to 12 August.

Domain: en_wikipedia_org

Data Link (You can check yourself): https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&start=2016-01-01&end=2017-08-05&sites=en.wikipedia.org

Last Week Predictions Link: https://medium.com/@yoghurtio/98-accuracy-last-week-by-yoghurt-io-wikipedia-predictions-till-05-august-17-2984d6101ad3

First of all our scorecard:

Last Week’s Prediction Accuracy (Overall ~99%)
Date — Predicted — Actual — Difference %age

2017–07–30 → 236,886,436 ← → 234,511,642 ← → 1.00%
2017–07–31 → 243,811,902 ← → 241,316,734 ← → 1.02%
2017–08–01 → 237,416,027 ← → 236,121,327 ← → 0.55%
2017–08–02 → 235,238,353 ← → 236,176,610 ← → -0.40%
2017–08–03→ 232,409,723 ← → 231,499,935 ← → 0.39%
2017–08–04 → 226,174,284 ← → 222,142,542 ← → 1.78%
2017–08–05 → 218,211,336 ← → 214,372,633 ← → 1.76%

Week Total: Predicted: 1,630,148,061
Week Total: Actual: 1,616,141,423

Overall Accuracy: 99.14%

Next Week Predictions: 06 August — 12 August

Date → Prediction

2017–08–06 → 229,930,751
2017–08–07 → 235,616,859
2017–08–08 → 230,301,297
2017–08–09 → 228,927,684
2017–08–10→ 224,937,163
2017–08–11 → 217,926,201
2017–08–12 → 210,123,501

Week Total: Predicted: 1,577,763,456

As usual it took less than 1 minute to run the prediction and more than 20 minutes to write about it.

Want to do it yourself for Wikipedia again. Follow the steps below.

Step 1: Sign Up: https://yoghurt.io/

Step 2: Download the Excel File Data of wikipedia pageviews. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/stlfx295kmlxbwx/Wiki%2005Aug17.xlsx?dl=0

Step 3: Upload it in Yoghurt. That’s it. Done. Enjoy the predictions.

Want to do it for your data, like visitors, conversions, signups, pageviews, just get the data in the excel format as above and start predicting or you can reach to us at care[at]yoghurt.io.

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Akhil Sharma

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