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Analyze and Predict Shipping Time Using Machine Learning

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6 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze shipping, pricing, inventory, and demand data using analytics techniques.

  • Apply machine learning workflows to predict shipping time and demand.

  • Evaluate models using business-aligned metrics to support logistics decisions.

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February 2026

Assessments

8 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Apply Machine Learning for Predictive Business Analytics Specialization
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There are 2 modules in this course

By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze shipping and pricing data, evaluate inventory and demand patterns, apply machine learning workflows, and predict shipping time and demand using data-driven models.

This course provides a practical, end-to-end understanding of how machine learning is applied to real-world shipping and logistics problems. Learners begin by exploring shipping pricing strategies, inventory availability, and data preparation techniques that form the foundation of reliable predictive models. The course then progresses into exploratory data analysis, correlation assessment, and distribution analysis to uncover meaningful insights from shipping datasets. Unlike theory-heavy ML courses, this program emphasizes business-aligned decision making, showing how model evaluation metrics such as Mean Absolute Error translate directly into operational outcomes. Learners also gain hands-on exposure to demand forecasting, feature engineering, normalization, and discretization, enabling them to improve model accuracy and interpretability. By completing this course, learners will build industry-relevant skills in logistics analytics, strengthen their ability to design and evaluate machine learning models, and gain a competitive edge in data-driven supply chain and e-commerce roles.

This module introduces the fundamentals of shipping systems and pricing strategies while guiding learners through data preparation, validation, and exploratory data analysis techniques essential for building reliable machine learning models in logistics and supply chain environments.

What's included

6 videos4 assignments

6 videosβ€’Total 55 minutes
  • Introduction to Shipping and pricingβ€’4 minutes
  • Inventory Statusβ€’9 minutes
  • Finding the Corelationβ€’10 minutes
  • Density for Numeric Attributeβ€’10 minutes
  • Defining Data Typeβ€’12 minutes
  • Data for Validationβ€’11 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Graded-Foundations of Shipping Data & Explorationβ€’30 minutes
  • Understanding the Shipping Ecosystemβ€’10 minutes
  • Preparing and Validating Dataβ€’10 minutes
  • Exploring Data Relationshipsβ€’10 minutes

This module focuses on machine learning model development for shipping and demand estimation, covering training strategies, performance evaluation metrics, demand forecasting techniques, and feature engineering methods to improve predictive accuracy.

What's included

7 videos4 assignments

7 videosβ€’Total 65 minutes
  • Method for Train Controlβ€’5 minutes
  • Assigning a Training Setβ€’11 minutes
  • Mean Absolute Errorβ€’7 minutes
  • Demand Forecastingβ€’11 minutes
  • Distribution of Attributesβ€’10 minutes
  • Spending Distributionβ€’9 minutes
  • Normalization and Discretizationβ€’12 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Graded-Modeling, Evaluation & Forecastingβ€’30 minutes
  • Training Strategy & Dataset Designβ€’10 minutes
  • Measuring Performance & Demandβ€’10 minutes
  • Feature Engineering & Data Transformationβ€’10 minutes

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