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Customer Analysis Part II: Classification

This is part two of a multipart series. Part one, segmentation and clustering, can be found here. Code for this section can be found in the repo: https://github.com/jamesdeluk/data-science/blob/main/Projects/customer-analysis/ca2-classification.ipynb Intro Great, we have our customers clustered! But, hopefully, over time, we’ll gain more customers, and they’ll need to be assigned to an existing cluster. This is called classification. There are a few techniques for doing this. First, let’s remind ourselves what our current clusters look like by grouping the data and finding the means, as we did in part one:

• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Classification
• Python
• Customer Analysis

Monday, November 18, 2024 | 19 minutes Read

Customer Analysis Part I: Segmentation and Clustering

This is part one of a multi-part series. Part two can be found here. Intro Customer analysis is one of the most important uses of data science. The better an organisation knows their customers, the better they can ensure their needs are met. This could be a supermarket providing special offers on a customer’s common purchases, a charity tweaking their messaging based on their’ donator’s personal interests, or a distributor using purchasing trends to determine where to open a new warehouse.

• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Segmentation
• Clustering
• Python
• Customer Analysis

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 18 minutes Read

Predicting Belgium’s future solar PV generation: Part II

This is part two of a two-part series. Part one covered collecting and processing the data, then assessing the forecasts in the dataset. It also contains the link to the dataset and repo. This part covers my predictions, using machine learning. Intro OK, we’ve looked at the data, and we’ve seen how accurate their predictions are/were. Can I do any better? I’m taking three approaches: SARIMA, TensorFlow, and Prophet. A quick aside: Why do we want to predict the future energy generation? There are a number of reasons.

• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Time Series
• Python
• Energy

Friday, November 8, 2024 | 15 minutes Read

Predicting Belgium’s future solar PV generation: Part I

This is part one of a two-part series. This part covers collecting and processing the data, then assessing the forecasts in the dataset. Part two covers my predictions. Intro I have a friend who owns a solar management platform, and he asked me to investigate some solar PV generation data provided by Elia, one of Belgium’s transmission system operators. The data includes measured solar PV generation by region, along with their various forecasts.

• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Time Series
• Python
• Energy

Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 15 minutes Read

How much for my car? Using machine learning to find out

Intro I own a wonderful Ford Fiesta ST-3 (2017, 7th generation, 38k miles), but since moving to London, she’s been sat at my parents’ house. I finally accepted it’s best to sell her. But how much should I ask? Let’s do some data analysis and machine learning! The JupyterLab notebook, extractor script, and data, is available on Github: https://github.com/jamesdeluk/data-science/tree/main/Projects/car-price-regression-modelling Gather the data Auto Trader makes it difficult to scrape data - the page is loaded dynamically, and has robots.txt etc to restrict bots, so I couldn’t find an online tool that worked. They do provide an API, but that’s only for industry, and likely costs a pretty penny.

• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Python
• Cars

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 21 minutes Read