Waves of Galactic Spending

Waves of Galactic Spending: Analyze Customer Spending Momentum Across Monthly Tiers

Analyzing customer tiers to track rolling monthly purchase trends.

Xorthax wants to understand how overall spending momentum shifts among different groups of customers. Divide all customers into four spending tiers based on their lifetime purchase totals. For each tier, calculate its total monthly spending (order quantity * price) and track how it changes over time using a 3-month rolling view and a comparison to the previous period. Order the results by spending tier and then month.
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It models how analysts track customer spending behavior over time to understand which groups are increasing or decreasing their purchase activity.

You’ll work with tier-based segmentation, rolling calculations, and partitioned ordering to analyze changes in group-level performance over time.

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