Category: retail

  • Walmart Weekly Sales Time Series Forecasting using SARIMAX & ML Models

    Walmart Weekly Sales Time Series Forecasting using SARIMAX & ML Models

    The blog post delves into Time Series Forecasting (TSF), using SARIMAX and Supervised Machine Learning algorithms to predict Walmart’s weekly store sales. Factors affecting sales are investigated for strategies to increase revenues. The study additionally covers data preparation, feature correlation analysis, SARIMAX diagnostics, and the training of supervised ML models like Linear Regression, Random Forest,…

  • Retail Sales, Store Item Demand Time-Series Analysis/Forecasting: AutoEDA, FB Prophet, SARIMAX & Model Tuning

    Retail Sales, Store Item Demand Time-Series Analysis/Forecasting: AutoEDA, FB Prophet, SARIMAX & Model Tuning

    This study compares and evaluates various forecasting models to predict sales and demand for retail businesses. The focus is on Time Series Analysis (TSA) methods such as FB Prophet and SARIMAX. The final FB Prophet model yields MAE=4.252 and MAPE=0.168, while SARIMAX models’ best performing variant achieves MAE=6.285 and MAPE=0.213. The study emphasizes the importance…

  • Unsupervised ML, K-Means Clustering & Customer Segmentation

    Unsupervised ML, K-Means Clustering & Customer Segmentation

    Table of Clickable Contents Motivation Methods Open-Source Datasets This file contains the basic information (ID, age, gender, income, and spending score) about the customers. Online retail is a transnational data set which contains all the transactions occurring between 01/12/2010 and 09/12/2011 for a UK-based and registered non-store online retail. The company mainly sells unique all-occasion…

  • Top Fast-Growing Apps in 2023

    Top Fast-Growing Apps in 2023

    The OKTA Business at Work report and blogs by Leon Zucchini discuss the fastest-growing and new app categories. Key trends include the growth of collaboration, communication, and travel apps, and the adoption of multi-cloud. Ten notable growing apps are Kandji, Grammarly, Bob, Notion, Prisma Access, Navan, GitLab, Ironclad, Terraform Cloud, and Figma. Emerging apps include…

  • Donchian Channel Trading Systems

    Donchian Channel Trading Systems

    This article explores the application of algo trading using Python for Altria Group, Inc., a Dividend King diversifying beyond smoking. The historical data for Altria is used to test and contrast trading strategies based on the Donchian Channel indicator. The key is to compare the highest total return when using the Donchian Channel Breakout versus…

  • Comparison of U.S. Growth Stocks – 1. WMT

    Comparison of U.S. Growth Stocks – 1. WMT

    The U.S. labor market and consumer spending are robust despite economic challenges. Bank of America reports a 5.1% rise in credit and debit card spending in January. The focus is on A-rated growth stocks like Walmart Inc. (WMT), with promising metrics and technical indicators supporting a Strong Buy sentiment. Algo trading with DI shows successful…