scholarly journals Supermarket Sales Prediction Using Regression

Sales forecasting is an important when it comes to companies who are engaged in retailing, logistics, manufacturing, marketing and wholesaling. It allows companies to allocate resources efficiently, to estimate revenue of the sales and to plan strategies which are better for company’s future. In this paper, predicting product sales from a particular store is done in a way that produces better performance compared to any machine learning algorithms. The dataset used for this project is Big Mart Sales data of the 2013.Nowadays shopping malls and Supermarkets keep track of the sales data of the each and every individual item for predicting the future demand of the customer. It contains large amount of customer data and the item attributes. Further, the frequent patterns are detected by mining the data from the data warehouse. Then the data can be used for predicting the sales of the future with the help of several machine learning techniques (algorithms) for the companies like Big Mart. In this project, we propose a model using the Xgboost algorithm for predicting sales of companies like Big Mart and founded that it produces better performance compared to other existing models. An analysis of this model with other models in terms of their performance metrics is made in this project. Big Mart is an online marketplace where people can buy or sell or advertise your merchandise at low cost. The goal of the paper is to make Big Mart the shopping paradise for the buyers and a marketing solutions for the sellers as well. The ultimate aim is the complete satisfaction of the customers. The project “SUPERMARKET SALES PREDICTION” builds a predictive model and finds out the sales of each of the product at a particular store. The Big Mart use this model to under the properties of the products which plays a major role in increasing the sales. This can also be done on the basis hypothesis that should be done before looking at the data

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo ◽  
Adam Hall

An insider threat can take on many forms and fall under different categories. This includes malicious insider, careless/unaware/uneducated/naïve employee, and the third-party contractor. Machine learning techniques have been studied in published literature as a promising solution for such threats. However, they can be biased and/or inaccurate when the associated dataset is hugely imbalanced. Therefore, this article addresses the insider threat detection on an extremely imbalanced dataset which includes employing a popular balancing technique known as spread subsample. The results show that although balancing the dataset using this technique did not improve performance metrics, it did improve the time taken to build the model and the time taken to test the model. Additionally, the authors realised that running the chosen classifiers with parameters other than the default ones has an impact on both balanced and imbalanced scenarios, but the impact is significantly stronger when using the imbalanced dataset.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Thomas Rincy N ◽  
Roopam Gupta

Today’s internets are made up of nearly half a million different networks. In any network connection, identifying the attacks by their types is a difficult task as different attacks may have various connections, and their number may vary from a few to hundreds of network connections. To solve this problem, a novel hybrid network IDS called NID-Shield is proposed in the manuscript that classifies the dataset according to different attack types. Furthermore, the attack names found in attack types are classified individually helping considerably in predicting the vulnerability of individual attacks in various networks. The hybrid NID-Shield NIDS applies the efficient feature subset selection technique called CAPPER and distinct machine learning methods. The UNSW-NB15 and NSL-KDD datasets are utilized for the evaluation of metrics. Machine learning algorithms are applied for training the reduced accurate and highly merit feature subsets obtained from CAPPER and then assessed by the cross-validation method for the reduced attributes. Various performance metrics show that the hybrid NID-Shield NIDS applied with the CAPPER approach achieves a good accuracy rate and low FPR on the UNSW-NB15 and NSL-KDD datasets and shows good performance results when analyzed with various approaches found in existing literature studies.


Author(s):  
Aaron Rodrigues

Abstract: Food sales forecasting is concerned with predicting future sales of food-related businesses such as supermarkets, grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, and patisseries. Companies can reduce stocked and expired products within stores while also avoiding missing revenues by using accurate short-term sales forecasting. This research examines current machine learning algorithms for predicting food purchases. It goes over key design considerations for a data analyst working on food sales forecasting’s, such as the temporal granularity of sales data, the input variables to employ for forecasting sales, and the representation of the sales output variable. It also examines machine learning algorithms that have been used to anticipate food sales and the proper metrics for assessing their performance. Finally, it goes over the major problems and prospects for applied machine learning in the field of food sales forecasting. Keywords: Food, Demand forecasting, Machine learning, Regression, Timeseries forecasting, Sales prediction


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3130
Author(s):  
Janka Kabathova ◽  
Martin Drlik

Early and precisely predicting the students’ dropout based on available educational data belongs to the widespread research topic of the learning analytics research field. Despite the amount of already realized research, the progress is not significant and persists on all educational data levels. Even though various features have already been researched, there is still an open question, which features can be considered appropriate for different machine learning classifiers applied to the typical scarce set of educational data at the e-learning course level. Therefore, the main goal of the research is to emphasize the importance of the data understanding, data gathering phase, stress the limitations of the available datasets of educational data, compare the performance of several machine learning classifiers, and show that also a limited set of features, which are available for teachers in the e-learning course, can predict student’s dropout with sufficient accuracy if the performance metrics are thoroughly considered. The data collected from four academic years were analyzed. The features selected in this study proved to be applicable in predicting course completers and non-completers. The prediction accuracy varied between 77 and 93% on unseen data from the next academic year. In addition to the frequently used performance metrics, the comparison of machine learning classifiers homogeneity was analyzed to overcome the impact of the limited size of the dataset on obtained high values of performance metrics. The results showed that several machine learning algorithms could be successfully applied to a scarce dataset of educational data. Simultaneously, classification performance metrics should be thoroughly considered before deciding to deploy the best performance classification model to predict potential dropout cases and design beneficial intervention mechanisms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-572
Author(s):  
Shrikant Kokate ◽  
Manna Sheela Rani Chetty

In banking sector credit score plays a very important factor. It is important to find which customer is valid and which is not valid for loan. Now to classify customer’s credit score is used. Based on this credit score of customers the bank will decide whether to approve loan or not. In banks there are major failures due to credit risks. We can automate this by using various Machine learning algorithms to identify loan defaulters. To classify and predict the customers here various Machine learning techniques like gradient boosting, random forest and Feature Selection technique along with Decision Tree are used. Using these algorithms we accurately classify valid and invalid customers for loan. Designed model can classify their customers into good and bad applicants and train the model for getting the better accuracy of the customer data.


The scope of this research work is to identify the efficient machine learning algorithm for predicting the behavior of a student from the student performance dataset. We applied Support Vector Machines, K-Nearest Neighbor, Decision Tree and Naïve Bayes algorithms to predict the grade of a student and compared their prediction results in terms of various performance metrics. The students who visited many resources for reference, made academic related discussions and interactions in the class room, absent for minimum days, cared by parents care have shown great improvement in the final grade. Among the machine learning techniques we have used, SVM has shown more accuracy in terms of four important attribute. The accuracy rate of SVM after tuning is 0.80. The KNN and decision tree achieves the accuracy of 0.64, 0.65 respectively whereas the Naïve Bayes achieves 0.77.


Author(s):  
Ranjan Kumar Behera ◽  
Kshira Sagar Sahoo ◽  
Debadatt Naik ◽  
Santanu Kumar Rath ◽  
Bibhudatta Sahoo

Link prediction is an emerging research problem in social network analysis, where future possible links are predicted based on the structural or the content information associated with the network. In this paper, various machine learning (ML) techniques have been utilized for predicting the future possible links based on the features extracted from the topological structure. Moreover, feature sets have been prepared by measuring different similarity metrics between all pair of nodes between which no link exists. For predicting the future possible links various supervised ML algorithms like K-NN, MLP, bagging, SVM, decision tree have been implemented. The feature set for each instance in the dataset has been prepared by measuring the similarity index between the non-existence links. The model has been trained to identify the new links which are likely to appear in the future but currently do not exist in the network. Further, the proposed model is validated through various performance metrics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Li-Pang Chen

In this paper, we investigate analysis and prediction of the time-dependent data. We focus our attention on four different stocks are selected from Yahoo Finance historical database. To build up models and predict the future stock price, we consider three different machine learning techniques including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Support Vector Regression (SVR). By treating close price, open price, daily low, daily high, adjusted close price, and volume of trades as predictors in machine learning methods, it can be shown that the prediction accuracy is improved.


Author(s):  
Anantvir Singh Romana

Accurate diagnostic detection of the disease in a patient is critical and may alter the subsequent treatment and increase the chances of survival rate. Machine learning techniques have been instrumental in disease detection and are currently being used in various classification problems due to their accurate prediction performance. Various techniques may provide different desired accuracies and it is therefore imperative to use the most suitable method which provides the best desired results. This research seeks to provide comparative analysis of Support Vector Machine, Naïve bayes, J48 Decision Tree and neural network classifiers breast cancer and diabetes datsets.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Tarawneh ◽  
Ja’afer Al-Saraireh

Twitter is one of the most popular platforms used to share and post ideas. Hackers and anonymous attackers use these platforms maliciously, and their behavior can be used to predict the risk of future attacks, by gathering and classifying hackers’ tweets using machine-learning techniques. Previous approaches for detecting infected tweets are based on human efforts or text analysis, thus they are limited to capturing the hidden text between tweet lines. The main aim of this research paper is to enhance the efficiency of hacker detection for the Twitter platform using the complex networks technique with adapted machine learning algorithms. This work presents a methodology that collects a list of users with their followers who are sharing their posts that have similar interests from a hackers’ community on Twitter. The list is built based on a set of suggested keywords that are the commonly used terms by hackers in their tweets. After that, a complex network is generated for all users to find relations among them in terms of network centrality, closeness, and betweenness. After extracting these values, a dataset of the most influential users in the hacker community is assembled. Subsequently, tweets belonging to users in the extracted dataset are gathered and classified into positive and negative classes. The output of this process is utilized with a machine learning process by applying different algorithms. This research build and investigate an accurate dataset containing real users who belong to a hackers’ community. Correctly, classified instances were measured for accuracy using the average values of K-nearest neighbor, Naive Bayes, Random Tree, and the support vector machine techniques, demonstrating about 90% and 88% accuracy for cross-validation and percentage split respectively. Consequently, the proposed network cyber Twitter model is able to detect hackers, and determine if tweets pose a risk to future institutions and individuals to provide early warning of possible attacks.


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