Forecasting peak-season outbound volume
- Hypothesis
- A seasonal time-series model predicts nightly outbound units more accurately than the planning team's rolling-average gut — early enough to staff against it.
- Dataset
- TODO — ~2 seasons of shift-level outbound (units, headcount, calendar features). Anonymized export.
- Method
- TODO — SARIMA vs. Prophet, backtested on held-out peak weeks. Chosen for interpretability and clean seasonality handling, so the floor can trust the number.
- Findings
- TODO — headline accuracy lift, e.g. “MAPE 18% → 7% vs. the rolling-average baseline.”
- Takeaway
- TODO — the operator payoff: staff to the forecast, not the gut, and stop over/under-planning peak nights.
- Python
- pandas
- statsmodels
- Prophet