Five Transaction Trail Tracker :Analyze Customer Spending Trends with Rolling Transaction Totals Intermediate
Measure each customer's spending trend over their last five transactions.
Xorthax wants to see customer spending behavior over time. For each customer, return their order date, total amount and the rolling five transaction total for all transactions.
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This mirrors analyzing customer purchase behavior over recent transactions to spot trends or shifts in spending.
You will practice creating rolling calculations over ordered data to measure behavior across defined time windows.
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