# GSoC 2019 application

**URL:** <https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** gsoc2018, gsoc\
**Created:** [March 17, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938 "2019-03-17T18:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![jiangeng\_chang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/jiangeng_chang/32/1645_2.png) [@jiangeng\_chang](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/jiangeng_chang)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/1 "2019-03-17T18:19:35Z")

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Hello everyone, my name is Jian Geng. I am from China. I have more than three years of Python development experience and have in-depth research on time series. I hope to improve the time series model in pymc3. I have found the python code for prophet ([fbprophet · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/fbprophet/#description)), and I hope that I can implement this model in pymc3.

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**Author:** ![jiangeng\_chang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/jiangeng_chang/32/1645_2.png) [@jiangeng\_chang](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/jiangeng_chang)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/2 "2019-03-18T02:26:00Z")

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@Ravin Kumar @Thomas Wiecki  
May I discuss with you?

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**Author:** ![junpenglao](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/junpenglao/32/8_2.png) [@junpenglao](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/junpenglao)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 6:15am UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/3 "2019-03-19T06:15:33Z")

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FYI: there is already a prophet like library based on pymc3: [https://github.com/luke14free/pm-prophet](https://github.com/luke14free/pm-prophet)

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**Author:** ![jiangeng\_chang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/jiangeng_chang/32/1645_2.png) [@jiangeng\_chang](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/jiangeng_chang)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/4 "2019-03-19T07:47:34Z")

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First of all, thank you very much for your help, I will refer to this code. But I think the idea in the idea list is that we need to add prophet to in the timeseries.py of pymc3 as a class, similar to ‘AR1’ etc. Finally, I just fixed an issue.I have @ you to help review it. Thank you

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**Author:** ![jiangeng\_chang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/jiangeng_chang/32/1645_2.png) [@jiangeng\_chang](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/jiangeng_chang)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/6 "2019-03-19T16:33:34Z")

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@brandonwillard  
May I discuss with you? I have fixed few issues of pymc. I want to develop the idea of GSoC 2019.But I think if you discuss with me will help so much.

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**Author:** ![junpenglao](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/junpenglao/32/8_2.png) [@junpenglao](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/junpenglao)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/7 "2019-03-19T16:39:20Z")

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Instead of tagging developers here randomly, it might helps to think about your own expertise (ideally something you can show - gist codes, jupyter notebooks, github repo, etc), and focus on a GSoC topic you are comfortable in contributing.

We have a lot of strong candidates this year, so please carefully evaluate your own strength and purpose the best project for you.

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**Author:** ![jiangeng\_chang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.pymc.io/jiangeng_chang/32/1645_2.png) [@jiangeng\_chang](https://discourse.pymc.io/u/jiangeng_chang)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/gsoc-2019-application/2938/8 "2019-03-19T16:42:31Z")

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Thank you very much for your reminder, I will pay great attention to it.