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Our demand forecasting model's error dropped from 18% to 9% MAPE. The biggest improvement wasn't a fancier…

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Priya Banerjee

Data Scientist | NLP, forecasting, Python | Ex-researcher | Women in Tech mentor

8 Oct 2026

Our demand forecasting model's error dropped from 18% to 9% MAPE. The biggest improvement wasn't a fancier model. It was adding Indian festival calendars and local holidays as features. Diwali week looks nothing like a normal week 😄
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    Reyansh Iyer8 Oct 2026

    Domain features beat model complexity every time.

  • AV

    Anika Verma8 Oct 2026

    Festival calendars! So obvious in hindsight.

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