Farm to Feed Shopping Basket Recommendation Challenge
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fractional quantities purchased
Data · 13 Dec 2025, 13:01 · 2
How come in the train data we have customers buying say 0.5 , 0.2 , 0.3 , 0.4 of a particular product. These values aren't intuitive for the 'qty_this_week' column.
Hi @isaacOluwafemiOg, the quantity order can be a fractional or less than 1 because it depends on the unit of the SKU. For example it is perfectly OK to order 0.5 Kg of tomatoes. Hence forth the quantity ordered is only aggregated per SKU (each SKU is always ordered in the same unit).
This explanation has brought me so much clarity.
Thank you for it.