ReallyIsTrump Tweet Predictor

Determining if tweets from @realDonaldTrump are written by the President or his staff Donald Trump’s proclivity for using Twitter has changed how the White House interacts with the media and broadcasts to the president’s followers. It’s also lead to a birth of a new academic subject and hobby for data analysts. People have studied how engagement has changed during his first 100 days and conducted sentiment analysis of his tweets both during the campaign and as president. [Read More]

West Nile Virus in Chicago, Part 1

This project will explore and analyze a dataset for West Nile Virus (WNV) detection in mosquitoes that were captured using traps around Chicago, IL. The data sets originate from the Kaggle competition, West Nile Virus Prediction. Even though the competition for this data set is over, I like using data sets from Kaggle to practice data viz and machine learning for the following reasons. The data is structured so there is instant gratification. [Read More]

Grupo Bimbo Report

Predicting Demand of Bakery Goods

Grupo Bimbo Technical Report Project Overview Our client, Grupo Bimbo, wants to develop a model to accurately forecast inventory demand based on the historical sales data they collect. Grupo Bimbo is a large bakery store chain that has more than 2500 products spanning over one million stores. Their goal is to meet the product demand for their customers while minimizing unsold surplus. Our group is tasked to create a model to accurately forecast inventory demand based on the historical sales data provided. [Read More]