Question: The data set provided in the excel sheet represents the number of weekly visitor the LIVLAND amusement park for year 2 0 2 2 .

The data set provided in the excel sheet represents the number of weekly visitor the LIVLAND amusement park for year 2022. The LIVLAND management team t to determine the best quantitative forecasting technique. Your task is to support them by experimenting different techniques on last year's data.
Use Moving Average Method (use data of the last three weeks)(1 point)
Use Weighted Moving Average (use data of the last three weeks and use 0.6, and 0.1 weighting factors for weeks from most recent to oldest)(1 point)
Use exponential smoothing factor and use smoothing constant () as 0.1(Take forecast for the first week as 2500)(1 point)
Calculate and compare the Mean Absolute Deviations (MAD). Which method possibly work best in 2023? Why? (1 point)
Draw a graph to compare actual and forecast data for all techniques. (1 point)
Calculate MAD for smoothing constants () from 0.1-0.9 with 0.1 increments. the lowest MAD. (1 point)
Draw the smoothing factor vs MAD chart. Which smoothing factor works bett Explain your reasoning. (1 point)
Please make your calculations in MS Excel but your submission as PDF file in prop professional look.
 The data set provided in the excel sheet represents the number

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