Predicting Amazon sales using Deep Learning
Introduction My primary aim was to predict the sales of an item given the Best Seller Rank on Amazon. Predicting the sales helps me in other use cases like suggesting sellers the best products to sell. My final aim is to provide data insights about any product: How much it will sell as well as when, where and how. What is Amazon Best Seller Rank? Best Selling Rank is a ranking system provided by Amazon that is linked to the number of sales of that product. This rank is calculated frequently. An important point to note is that Best Selling Rank is a 'ranking system' and by itself it doesn't mean anything. A rank of #1, therefore, means that product has sold more than any other product in that category, on that marketplace. This kind of makes it relatively easy to predict the number of sales of a product if we know the sales of other products ranking close to it. How did we get the initial sales data? I have been selling professionally on Amazon and ha