IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 12, No 2: June 2023

BMSP-ML: big mart sales prediction using different machine learning techniques

Rao Faizan Ali (University of Management and Technology)
Amgad Muneer (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS)
Ahmed Almaghthawi (King Khalid University)
Amal Alghamdi (University of Jeddah)
Suliman Mohamed Fati (Prince Sultan University)
Ebrahim Abdulwasea Abdullah Ghaleb (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2023

Abstract

Variations in sales over time is the main issue faced by many retailers. To overcome this problem, we attempt to predict the sales by comparing the previous sales data of different stores. Firstly, the primary task is to recognize the pattern of the factors that help to predict sales. This study helps us understand the data and predict sales using many machines learning models. This process gets the data and beautifies the data by imputing the missing values and feature engineering. While solving this problem, predicting the monthly sales value is significant in the study. In addition, an essential element is to clear the missing data and perform proper feature engineering to better understand them before applying them. The experimental results show that the random forest predictor has outperformed ridge regression, linear regression, and decision tree models among the four machine learning techniques implemented in this study. The performance of the proposed models has been evaluated using root mean square error (RMSE).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...