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Predicting new and existing product sales in semiconductors using Amazon Forecast

AWS Machine Learning Blog

We observed during the exploratory data analysis (EDA) that as we move from micro-level sales (product level) to macro-level sales (BL level), missing values become less significant. For example, in the 2019 WAPE value, we trained our model using sales data between 2011–2018 and predicted sales values for the next 12 months (2019 sale).