Businesses Struggle to Operationalize Time-Series Forecasting
A researcher asks how businesses run forecasting on sales, demand, and inventory data, covering data cleaning, backtesting, and tooling. The pain sits between engineers who already have libraries and spreadsheet users an API will not reach.
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