{"id":4528,"date":"2025-05-15T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:28:06","slug":"market-demand-forecasting-analyzing-amazon-sales-using-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/market-demand-forecasting-analyzing-amazon-sales-using-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Demand Forecasting: Analyzing Amazon Sales using Machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Jaden Pieterse, Sol Plaatjie University<br><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Dr Martins Arosamwan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>The need for accurate demand and sales forecasting is important for companies to perform better. Due to rapid technological development, e-commerce platforms face challenges with finding proper models to deal with market demand. LSTM is considered to perform best in predicting demand.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2187440532-Jaden-Pieterse-41196_Jaden_Pieterse_Final_Capstone_Poster_18079_624027460-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Jaden Pieterse, Sol Plaatjie UniversitySupervisor: Dr Martins Arosamwan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The need for accurate demand and sales forecasting is important for companies to perform better. Due to rapid technological development, e-commerce platforms face challenges with finding proper models to deal with market demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}