External Variables Impact Analysis Course
This course equips participants with skills to analyze external variables' impact on retail demand, focusing on data engineering, modeling, and communication of insights.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The External Variables Impact Analysis Course teaches you how to transform weekly retail data and external signals into reliable, actionable insights. You will learn to clean and engineer features, manage holidays, weather, macroeconomic indicators, and competitor activities, then develop transparent, explainable models. Additionally, you will gain expertise in reproducible workflows, experiment tracking, and effectively communicating impact, uncertainty, and recommendations to decision-makers.
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Develop skills
- Time series retail modelling: build robust weekly demand forecasts quickly.
- External drivers engineering: convert weather, macro, and search data into useful signals.
- Explainable models: utilise SHAP and PDPs to explain the impact of external variables.
- Impact quantification: translate coefficients into clear effects on sales and policies.
- Reproducible pipelines: create versioned, ethical, and production-ready workflows.
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