Can the demand for an item be predicted before its market launch?

How about 1 month into launch, once the initial numbers are in?

Which signals best prophesy future demand? Can these be controlled?

We set out to answer the questions above using the ~10 billion price & demand signals in our database, and our Universal Product Catalog. Our approach was to build a forecasting model tuned to predict publicly available sales metrics such as sales rank.

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