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Time Series Forecasting Using Context Rish Restaurant Sales Data in Data Science Education (106951)
Session: On Demand
Room: Virtual Video Presentation
Presentation Type:Virtual Presentation
Restaurant diner forecasting in data science education is significant for decision making, human resource management, and inventory control. This paper proposes a decision-centric framework which including context layer, data layer, model layer, and decision layers for the design and implementation of context-aware forecasting model. The Kaggle's Restaurant Sales Report 2024-2025 dataset is used in this research, it provides comprehensive daily sales records across multiple restaurant categories, enriched with contextual variables such as weather, promotions, special events, and pricing information. The methodology of this paper implements a structured analytical pipeline consisting of data cleaning, feature construction, time-series decomposition (trend and seasonality), and exploratory regression analysis using contextual variables such as weather, promotions, events, and prices. These steps are mapped to the proposed context, data, model, and decision layers to demonstrate how analytical outputs inform forecasting-related decisions. The findings of this research suggests that the proposed framework is suitable for forecasting the amount of diners to practical decision making, by explicitly various layers, the framework helps to understand how data preprocessing, feature construction and modeling choices affect downstream outcomes, the prediction of the diners for the future. The framework supports the implementation of forecasting models that are transparent, reproducible and adaptable to various different restaurant settings.
Authors:
Boyang Zhang, University of Turku, Finland
About the Presenter(s)
Senior Post-doc researcher in University of Turku, Finland
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