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Revenue Forecasting & Seasonality

Time-series forecast of monthly revenue with Prophet, decomposing trend and seasonality — visualized so non-technical stakeholders could plan headcount and inventory with confidence.

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Question

What's the fastest way to let anyone explore revenue & seasonality for themselves?

Approach

Using Python, Prophet, Pandas, and Plotly, the data was transformed into a visual narrative — time-series forecast of monthly revenue with Prophet, decomposing trend and seasonality — visualized so non-technical stakeholders could plan…

Result

The full solution — including source code and documentation — is available on GitHub.

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Goal

Give the ops team a defensible 6-month revenue forecast instead of last-year-plus-10%.

Approach

  • Cleaned 3 years of daily sales, handled holidays and promos as regressors
  • Fit Prophet, tuned changepoint prior via rolling backtests
  • Built an interactive Plotly view of trend, weekly, and yearly seasonality

Result

Backtested MAPE of 7.8% on held-out months, and the seasonality breakdown finally explained the recurring Q1 dip stakeholders kept re-litigating.