Category: Business Intelligence
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Retail Sales, Store Item Demand Time-Series Analysis/Forecasting: AutoEDA, FB Prophet, SARIMAX & Model Tuning
This study compares and evaluates various forecasting models to predict sales and demand for retail businesses. The focus is on Time Series Analysis (TSA) methods such as FB Prophet and SARIMAX. The final FB Prophet model yields MAE=4.252 and MAPE=0.168, while SARIMAX models’ best performing variant achieves MAE=6.285 and MAPE=0.213. The study emphasizes the importance…
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Real-Time Stock Sentiment Analysis w/ NLP Web Scraping
Stock sentiment analysis is gaining popularity as a technique to understand public opinions on specific assets. This study uses NLP web scraping in Python to extract stock sentiments from financial news headlines on FinViz. The sentiment analysis can help determine investor opinions and potential impacts on stock prices, though it is not a standalone predictor.
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The 5-Step GCP IoT Device-to-Report via AI Roadmap
The Internet of Things (IoT) aids in the improvement of processes and enables new scenarios through network-connected devices. Recognized as a driver of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, IoT applications include predictive maintenance, industry safety, automation, remote monitoring, asset tracking, and fraud detection. Advancements in cloud IoT architectures over recent years have enabled efficient data ingestion,…
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Plotly Dash TA Stock Market App
The post explains how to deploy a Plotly Dash stock market app in Python with the dashboard of user-defined stock prices. This includes technical indicators like volume, MACD, and stochastic. The steps include selecting a stock ticker symbol (NVDA), retrieving stock data from yfinance API, adding Moving Averages, saving the stock chart in HTML form,…
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Low-Code AutoEDA of Dutch eHealth Data in Python
The article details the usage of Python’s Low-Code AutoEDA for examining Dutch Healthcare Authority’s eHealth data. Utilizing various Python libraries like D-Tale, SweetViz, etc., the study aims to understand the healthcare data’s key features to ready it for AI techniques. The motivations include the Dutch government’s support for digital healthcare applications, especially amidst the recent…
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ML Prediction of High/Low Video Game Hits with Data Resampling and Model Tuning
The post outlines a ML-based approach to forecast video game sales, using several techniques to enhance training, accuracy, and prediction. The Kaggle’s VGChartz dataset, containing sales data and other game-specific information, was used to build and refine the model. Several ML techniques including RandomForestClassifier and Logistic Regression yielded top predictors, with the critic’s score deemed…
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Customer Reviews NLP Spacy Analysis and ML/AI Demand Forecasting of the Steam PC Video Game Service
Steam, a leading digital distribution platform for PC gaming, has seen over 6000 new games released in 2022, averaging over 34 games each day. This post aims to conduct comprehensive customer reviews NLP sentiment analysis and ML/AI demand forecasting using public-domain datasets. It covers EDA, NLP Spacy analysis, ML/AI pipeline, model validation, word clouds, and…
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Unsupervised ML, K-Means Clustering & Customer Segmentation
Table of Clickable Contents Motivation Methods Open-Source Datasets This file contains the basic information (ID, age, gender, income, and spending score) about the customers. Online retail is a transnational data set which contains all the transactions occurring between 01/12/2010 and 09/12/2011 for a UK-based and registered non-store online retail. The company mainly sells unique all-occasion…
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Top Fast-Growing Apps in 2023
The OKTA Business at Work report and blogs by Leon Zucchini discuss the fastest-growing and new app categories. Key trends include the growth of collaboration, communication, and travel apps, and the adoption of multi-cloud. Ten notable growing apps are Kandji, Grammarly, Bob, Notion, Prisma Access, Navan, GitLab, Ironclad, Terraform Cloud, and Figma. Emerging apps include…
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Risk-Aware Strategies for DCA Investors
Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) is an investment approach that involves investing a fixed amount regularly, regardless of market price. It offers benefits such as risk reduction and market downturn resilience. It’s useful for beginners and can be combined with other strategies for a disciplined investment approach. References include Investopedia and Yahoo Finance.
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The $0 MarTech Stack for Small Business
The post is a comprehensive guide to marketing technology, or martech. It covers the development of customer data platforms for managing marketing operations, as well as ten categories of free martech SaaS tools useful for startups. The categories include marketing automation, social media, SEO, lead generation, graphic design, PR, email marketing, project management, conversion rate…
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Working with FRED API in Python: U.S. Recession Forecast & Beyond
The FRED API, or Federal Reserve Economic Data, provides over 267,000 economic time series from 80 sources, offering a wealth of data to promote economic education and research. It encompasses U.S. economic and financial data, including interest rates, monetary indicators, exchange rates, and regional economic data. Additionally, we analyzed correlations, trained currency exchange prediction models,…
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Overview of AWS Tech Portfolio 2023
This summary focuses on the extensive capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS) by 2023, highlighting its 27% year-on-year growth and a net sales increase to $127.1 billion. AWS emerges as the top cloud service provider, offering over 200 services including compute, storage, databases, networking, AI, and machine learning. It is constantly expanding operations, having opened…
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Post-SVB Risk Aware Investing
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its repercussions have prompted a reevaluation of risk-aware investing in the US financial sector. The crisis has exposed the vulnerability of banks invested in long-term fixed income assets, highlighting the importance of diversification and risk management. Market indicators suggest continued volatility and uncertainty, urging investors to exercise…
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SARIMAX Crude Oil Prices Forecast – 2. Brent
This study focuses on validating the EIA energy forecast for the 2023 Brent crude oil spot price using SARIMAX time-series cross-validation. It includes prerequisites, data loading, ETS decomposition, ADF test, SARIMAX modeling, predictions, model evaluation, and summary. The predictions align with the EIA forecast, with discrepancies within predicted confidence intervals.
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Trending YouTube Video Data Science, NLP Predictions & Sentiment Analysis
Table of Contents Global YT WordCloud Let’s begin with the Kaggle YT TextHero dataset containing 3599 rows and 4 columns. Let’s set the working directory YOURPATH import osos.chdir(‘YOURPATH’) os. getcwd() and import all necessary modulesfrom wordcloud import WordCloud, STOPWORDSimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport pandas as pd Let’s read the input dataset df = pd.read_csv(r”youtube0.csv”, encoding =”latin-1″)…
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Testing & Applications of Best AI Content Detector vs Generator APIs
This is an AI-powered digital marketing project that tests and discusses applications of top AI content detectors and generators. It reviewed 14 AI content generator and 5 AI detector APIs for 2023 and tested for results. It additionally explored utilizing AI to improve SEO performance, including competitor analysis, discovery of high-potential keywords and topics, and…
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Top Digital Marketing Trends ’23
In 2023, digital marketing trends focus on social media, influencer marketing, short-form video, investments in Twitter Spaces, and mobile strategy. Key points include website traffic sources, new platforms like Instagram Live Rooms, marketing channels, and device traffic breakdown. Video marketing, influencer trends, and B2B vs. B2C marketing strategies also shape the future.
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SARIMAX Forecasting of Online Food Delivery Sales
This article provides a beginner-friendly guide to understanding and evaluating ARIMA-based time-series forecasting models such as SARIMA and SARIMAX. It focuses on an QC-optimized SARIMA(X) model to forecast the e-commerce sales of a food delivery company. The post covers essential concepts, data processing, model comparisons, and insights. It also includes a comparison between SARIMA and…
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Stock Market ’22 Round Up & ’23 Outlook: Zacks Strategy vs Seeking Alpha Tactics
Featured Photo by Pixabay Contents: Zacks Market Research 2022 has been a strong year for jobs: Commodity markets: Energy: Global Investments: In the Zacks October 2022 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) survey, the CIOs made it fairly clear how they felt about investing outside the US. Answer: not great. Corporate High Yield and Investment Grade Bonds:In…
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