Traditional Forecasting uses

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User experience

When companies launch a new product, they often design surveys that measure the attitudes of customers towards that product.

Analyzing the results after the BI team has generated their dashboards includes grouping the observations by segments (e.g., regions), and then analyzing each segment separately to extract meaningful predictive coefficients.

The results of these operations often corroborate the conclusion that the product needs slight but significantly different adjustments  in  each  segment  in  order  to maximize customer satisfaction.

Forecasting
sales
Forecasting sales volume is the type of analysis where time series comes into play.




Sales data has been gathered until a certain date, and the data scientist wants to know what is likely to happen
in
the next
sales
period, or
a year
ahead. How does
it
work?




They apply mathematical and statistical models and run multiple simulations; these simulations
provide the analyst with future scenarios.




This is at the core of data science, because, based on these scenarios, the company can  make better  predictions  and  implement adequate strategies.


WHO  USES TRADITIONAL
FORECASTING
The data scientist. But bear in mind that this title also applies to the person who employs machine learning techniques for analytics too. A lot of the work spills from one methodology to the other.




The  data  analyst,  on  the  other  hand,  is  the person who prepares advanced types of analyses that explain the patterns in the data that have already emerged and overlooks the basic part of the predictive
analytics.