Predict your business numbers with 96% accuracy like Wikipedia predictions, up till 07 October 17 by Yoghurt.io.

Akhil Sharma
2 min readOct 2, 2017

Every business run on numbers, numbers of performance and marketing efforts. Yoghurt.io, prediction automation platform helps you predict those numbers for you every week like we are doing it for Wikipedia Pageviews every week.

Last week we had been able to hit the 96% accuracy again and now let’s see how much accurate we would be for our pageviews predictions for next week from 01 October to 07 October.

Domain for Prediction: en_wikipedia_org

Wikipedia Data Link (You can check yourself): https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&start=2016-01-01&end=2017-09-30&sites=en.wikipedia.org

Last Week What we had predicted: https://medium.com/@yoghurtio/95-accuracy-last-week-by-yoghurt-io-wikipedia-predictions-up-till-30-september-17-2313a697b504

First of all our scorecard:

Last Week’s Prediction Accuracy (Overall ~96%)
Date — Predicted — Actual — Difference %age

2017–09–24 → 246,551,010 ← → 239,078,025 ← → 3.03%
2017–09–25 → 257,242,750 ← → 250,950,751 ← → 2.45%
2017–09–26 → 250,849,779 ← → 246,101,748 ← → 1.89%
2017–09–27 → 246,767,008 ← → 241,404,752 ← → 2.17%
2017–09–28→ 245,336,484 ← → 240,791,648 ← → 1.85%
2017–09–29 → 233,999,091 ← → 223,389,500 ← → 4.53%
2017–09–30 → 226,923,127 ← → 212,214,320 ← → 6.48%

Week Total: Predicted: 1,707,669,249
Week Total: Actual: 1,653,930,744

Overall Accuracy: 96.85%

Next Week Predictions: 01 October — 07 October

Date → Prediction

2017–10–01 → 234,990,388
2017–10–02 → 245,908,049
2017–10–03 → 240,454,777
2017–10–04 → 235,850,277
2017–10–05→ 235,279,768
2017–10–06 → 221,005,043
2017–10–07 → 211,987,147

Week Total: Predicted: 1,625,475,449

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 till 26Aug17. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsklf0ya81z642u/Wiki%2030Sep17.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 akhil[at]yoghurt.io.

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Akhil Sharma

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