Retail, E-commerce & Consumer Goods
Recommendations, demand forecasting and customer analytics.
Beginner
Start here. No background needed beyond school maths.
Marketing Analytics (IIT Kharagpur)
Using data to understand customers: segmentation, customer lifetime value, pricing and measuring campaigns. Free to learn on NPTEL; the certificate needs a proctored exam with a fee.
NPTEL
The Analytics Edge (MIT)
MIT Sloan's hands-on analytics course: regression, trees, clustering and optimisation applied to real business cases in retail, healthcare and sport.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Advanced
Once the basics are comfortable.
From Noise to Insight: How LLMs Are Transforming Threat Intelligence Analysis
An article from Flipkart on From Noise to Insight: How LLMs Are Transforming Threat Intelligence Analysis. Best once you are comfortable with the basics of Retail, E-commerce & Consumer Goods. It opens on the publisher's site in a new tab.
Flipkart
Triksha - Securing AI with AI at Flipkart
An article from Flipkart on Triksha - Securing AI with AI at Flipkart. Best once you are comfortable with the basics of Retail, E-commerce & Consumer Goods. It opens on the publisher's site in a new tab.
Flipkart
LLMs for Relevance: Automating High-Quality Product Relevance Labeling in Flipkart Search
An article from Flipkart on LLMs for Relevance: Automating High-Quality Product Relevance Labeling in Flipkart Search. Best once you are comfortable with the basics of Retail, E-commerce & Consumer Goods. It opens on the publisher's site in a new tab.
Flipkart
Recommender Systems Specialization (University of Minnesota)
From the team that pioneered recommender research: non-personalised and collaborative filtering, matrix factorisation and evaluating recommenders. Free to audit on Coursera; the certificate is paid.
Coursera
Store Sales Time Series Forecasting (Kaggle)
Forecast daily sales for thousands of products across a grocery chain, including holidays and promotions. An always-open learning competition.
Kaggle