In two weeks I am presenting a workshop at the University of Granada (Spain) on Automatic Time Series Forecasting. Unlike most of my talks, this is not intended to be primarily about my own research. Rather it is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic (at a level suitable for Masters students in Computer Science). I thought I’d provide some historical perspective on the development of automatic time series forecasting, plus give some comments on the current best …