Introduction
The online shopping company you worked with in the previous chapter is busy planning a new feature. Currently, whenever customers search for a product on their website or their app, they are shown the desired product along with options to buy the same product from different sellers. For example, if a customer is looking for a washing machine, they'll get options to buy the product from seller A, seller B, seller C, and so on. Now, the company wants to predict which seller a specific user would be more inclined to buy the product from. They'll then make the most preferred seller a part of their "Verified Seller" program, thus showing that seller as the first option to users. This, in turn, will help the company increase the chances that the product will be bought by the user, consequently leading to an increase in the company's profits. The company is first targeting washing machines for this task, and they have shortlisted four suppliers to solve...