You work at Rossmann Pharmaceuticals as a data scientist. The finance team wants to forecast sales in all their stores across several cities six weeks ahead of time. Managers in individual stores rely on their years of experience as well as their personal judgement to forecast sales.
The data team identified factors such as promotions, competition, school and state holidays, seasonality, and locality as necessary for predicting the sales across the various stores.
Your job is to build and serve an end-to-end product that delivers this prediction to Analysts in the finance team.
- Perform Exploratory Data Analysis
- Preprocess Data with Sklearn
- Build models with SKlearn pipelines
- Serialize models and serve it to a web interface with Flask