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02:22 Contribute an article to the Journal of Business forecasting. Email the editor at [email protected] for more information.
03:47: How do you forecast after Covid-19 when forecast data is no longer relevant?
05:10 What is an outlier? 
08:30 How companies are approaching Covid data/outliers.
08:50 Smoothing historical data .
12:04 Pruning historical data.
13:35 Replacing historical data for the Covid period.
16:17 Understand and improve methods and process.
22:59 Be careful with your assumptions.
24:20 Manual overrides with qualitative judgement/emerging information.
27:48 Predictive analytics to look more types of data.

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