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Auctane E-Commerce Pricing and CPI
Inflation has been a major concern for people across the world as countries for much of this past year. Economists point to a number of factors influencing the price volatility of a variety of goods and services. As e-commerce becomes an increasingly larger portion of the retail economy, should we think about how we measure…Read more
Predicting Census Data from E-Commerce Data
Accurate population and demographic data is useful to many businesses and organizations in decision making. However, census data can take time to collect and compile. Real time data is crucial, though census data represents a previous state of the population. As ecommerce grows and represents an increasingly larger proportion of US retail purchasing, related data…Read more
Determining the Optimal Warehouse Location
An optimally located warehouse can potentially save an ecommerce merchant a significant portion of their shipping costs. However, identifying the optimal location can be non-trivial for small and mid-sized businesses without an analytics department. In this study, we propose helping merchants find the optimal locations for additional warehouses via a modified K-means clustering algorithm. For…Read more