“In production in one week: forecasting affluence in supermarkets during lockdown” by Chiara Biscaro, Senior Data Scientist @ Carrefour-Google AI Lab Abstract: The Coronavirus and the lockdown that have been implemented in many countries have drastically changed people's shopping habits in a matter of hours or days. Restrictions on movements and limitations on gatherings have created a challenge for our supermarkets, that quickly needed to know whose hours would attract the most customers. I'll share how we quickly designed and put in production an affluence prediction with ~80% forecast accuracy in a matter of days, and its limitations.