Cognizant Technical Assessment

 

Analyzing Sales for Fast Food Inc

 

Rishav Chakravarti

Oct 15, 2014

Understanding the Trends

Aggregate

Store Level

 

Next Steps

Recommendations

Additional Analysis

 

Overall Unit Sales

Unit Sales by Product

Aggregate Trends

Cyclical

  • Price discrimination

 

 

Overall Trend

  • Projected growth

 

Predictable?

Decomposition of Aggregate Trends

Unit Sales by Store Level

Stores 2,3,6

Downward Trend

 

Store 3 missing some data:

2014-09-14
2014-09-21
2014-09-28
2014-10-05

Store 2

Store 3

Store 6

Store 4,5,7

Overall positive trend

Store 4

Store 5

Store 7

Store 1

Unexpected dip during week 3

Store 1

Next Steps

Business Questions Raised

  • Why unit sales are on the decline at stores 2,3,6?
    • Why is store 3 missing 'Sunday' data?
  • Why unit sales are growing at stores 4,5,7?
  • Why did store 1 experience a temporary dip?

Additional Analysis

  • Predictions? Seasonal Trends?
  • Automated Anomaly Detection

Questions?

Appendix - Data Summary

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