Forecasting Impact
Forecasting Impact is a monthly podcast that aims to disseminate the science and practice of forecasting alongside prominent academics and practitioners in the field. Our vision is to grow the forecasting community, foster collaboration between academia and industry, and promote scientific forecasting and good practice. We’ll discuss a variety of topics in economics, supply chain, energy, AI, data analytics, healthcare, and more.
Podcast Team: Dr. Mahdi Abolghasemi, Dr. Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi, Michał Chojnowski, Dr Laila Akhlaghi, George Boretos, Mariana Menchero, Dr. Faranak Golestaneh, Arian Sultan Khan.
Future guests: if you have something interesting on forecasting to share with our audiences, please send an email to forecastingimpact@gmail.com
Forecasting Impact
Trevor Sidery
Trevor Sidery is a Lead Data Scientist at Tesco PLC. In this episode, Trevor unveils the mystery of how astrophysics and fluid dynamics studies leads to forecasting.
Trevor discusses the forecasting process within a large retail company, and which business component models are predicting and how models are selected. He elaborates on best practices on scaling forecasting models on large amount of time series.