5 Machine Learning Techniques for Sales Forecasting
Comparing Linear Regression, Random Forest Regression, XGBoost, LSTMs, and ARIMA Time Series Forecasting In Python
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8 min readApr 22, 2020
Forecasting sales is a common and essential use of machine learning (ML). Sales forecasts can be used to identify benchmarks and determine incremental impacts of new initiatives, plan resources in response to expected demand, and project future budgets. In this article, I will show how to implement 5 different ML models to predict sales.