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Anshul Joshi
Anshul Joshi
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Anshul Joshi

Anshul Joshi is a data scientist with experience in recommendation systems, predictive modeling, neural networks, and high performance computing. His research interests encompass deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computational physics. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new he can get his hands on. You can also follow his personal blog.
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What is forecasting?


Let's take the example of an organization that needs to find out the demand for its inventory in the near future, to maximize the return on investment.

For instance, numerous stock frameworks apply for indeterminate demand. The stock parameters in these frameworks require evaluations of the demand and forecast error distributions.

The two phases of these frameworks, forecasting and stock control, are frequently analyzed autonomously. It is essential to comprehend the cooperation between demand estimating and stock control since this impacts the execution of the stock framework.

Forecasting requirements include:

  • Each decision gets to be operational sooner or later, so it ought to be based on figures of future conditions.

  • Figures are required all through an organization and they should absolutely not be created by a disconnected gathering of forecasters.

  • Forecasting is never "wrapped up". Forecasts are required constantly, and as time proceeds onward, the effect of the forecasts...

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Julia for Data Science
Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785289699

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Anshul Joshi

Anshul Joshi is a data scientist with experience in recommendation systems, predictive modeling, neural networks, and high performance computing. His research interests encompass deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computational physics. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new he can get his hands on. You can also follow his personal blog.
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