Many Business activities are seasonal in nature, where most of the business are dependent on a particular time of festival and holidays. Every business uses sales promotion techniques to increase the demand for their products and services, in order to stay in the market for a longer period. In this article, I am going to do sales forecasting with machine learning by analyzing the historical data with techniques like Time Series Forecasting.
1.Exploratory Data Analysis
To get some insights about the continuous variables in data, I will plot and empirical distribution function (ECDF):
2.Time Series Forecasting
- Prophet model : https://facebook.github.io/prophet/