Most data scientists use traditional methods of forecasting, such as exponential smoothing or ARIMA, to forecast a product demand. However, when the product experiences several periods of zero demand, approaches such as Croston may provide a better accuracy over these traditional methods. Prateek Nagaria compares traditional and Croston methods in R on intermittent demand time series.

Jay Wang and Jasmine Nettiksimmons explore the business model of Stitch Fix, an emerging startup that uses artificial intelligence and human experts for a personalized shopping experience, and highlight the challenges encountered implementing Stitch Fix's recommendation algorithm and interacting AI with human stylists.

Martin Willcox shares the lessons he's learned from successful Teradata IoT projects about about how to manage and leverage sensor data and explains why data management, data integration, and multigenre analytics are foundational to driving business value from IoT initiatives.