Data slices of historical time series are leveraged to facilitate in more
accurately predicting like data slices of future time series. Different
predictive models are employed to detect outliers in different data
slices to enhance the accuracy of the predictions. The data slices can be
temporal and/or non-temporal attributes of a data set represented by the
historical time series. In this manner, for example, a historical time
series for a network location can be sliced temporally into one hour time
periods as a function of a day, a week, a month, a year, etc. Outliers
detected in these data slices can then be mitigated utilizing the
predictive time series model by replacing the outlier with the expected
value. The mitigated historical time series can then be employed in a
predictive model to predict future web traffic for the network location
(and advertising revenue values) with a substantial increase in accuracy.