Holt-Winters Forecasting for Many Products and Departments

User145718User145718 MemberPosts:7Contributor II
edited December 2019 inHelp
Dear all,

I have a term project on forecasting the data that I have. The problem that I'm facing is my data consists of many departments and products and I need to forecast them separately. The tutorial of holt-winters can help me if I have only one product to forecast. But since my data has many sales departments and each of them has many products it's extremely time-consuming for me to forecast them one by one.

How can I forecast a product of each sales department in one model?

My data looks like this:

Month Sales Department Product Sales Quantity

Jan A 1 10
Jan B 1 20
Feb A 2 20
Feb B 2 10
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.
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Thanks,
Have a nice one!

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  • lionelderkrikorlionelderkrikor Moderator, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, MemberPosts:1,195Unicorn
    Hi@User145718,

    You could useFilter Examplesinside aLoop Valuesoperator.
    But this process will create as many models as "sales departments"...

    Regards,

    Lionel
    Pavithra_Rao
  • User145718User145718 MemberPosts:7Contributor II
    Hi@lionelderkrikor,

    Thanks for your reply,

    Can I use Loop Values inside an another Loop Values operator to create as many models as I like?

    Regards,
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