Time Series – Analyzing Sales Data with Tensorflow

Wow your colleagues in the boardroom with accurate predictions for future sales data! Follow along with the code below, or give it a shot on Google CoLab! For those who prefer to watch as opposed to read, I teach this tutorial on my YouTube channel, watch below!

I am going to break down the time series analysis into several steps, although you may feel free to run the Google CoLab notebook at the bottom of the page!

Before really getting into the science behind TensorFlow, Machine Learning, etc, let’s grab a dataset! I’m sure you have a dataset from work that you can use, however I do not work in a sales based position, so I will look for a dataset via Dataset Search. I chose the Superstore Sales Dataset listed on .

Accessing datafile with Colab

In order to access you datafile with Colab, simply upload your datafile to your GDrive. If your data is too large for your GDrive, please check out my video regarding AWS Cloud based services for hosting your data!