From 6e6bca297ae03f1a8e54b5ea9538db4c18b7c72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KunduSumit Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:04:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Cosmetic changes --- Project Proposal.Rmd | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Project Proposal.Rmd b/Project Proposal.Rmd index be818d0..9de2944 100644 --- a/Project Proposal.Rmd +++ b/Project Proposal.Rmd @@ -15,27 +15,27 @@ text-align: justify} knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE) ``` -### Project Proposal on Customer Behavioural Analytics in the Retail sector +### Project Proposal on Customer Behavioural Analytics in the Retail Sector
-__Project title:__ "Customer Behavioural Analytics in the Retail sector"
+__Project Title:__ "Customer Behavioural Analytics in the Retail Sector"
-__Names of team members:__
+__Names of Team Members:__
1. Nadiia Honcharenko (220681)
2. Rutuja Shivraj Pawar (220051, rutuja.pawar@ovgu.de)
-3. Shivani Jadhav ()
-4. Sumit Kundu () +3. Shivani Jadhav (223856, shivani.jadhav@st.ovgu.de)
+4. Sumit Kundu (217453, sumit.kundu@st.ovgu.de) __Under the Guidance of:__ M.Sc. Uli Niemann __Date:__ ```r format(Sys.Date(), "%B %e, %Y")``` -__Background and motivation:__ +__Background and Motivation:__ -__Project objectives:__ A customer is a key-centric factor for any business to be successful. Effectively measuring and modeling customer behaviour by understanding what matters the most to them thus devising appropriate strategies can help to enhance the overall customer experience. This eventually helps in the long run towards customer retention and a sustainable growth of the business. Hence, _Understanding the Customer Behavioural Pattern in a Business_ is the crucial problem to be addressed. This project thus aims to address the problem of understanding customer behaviour in the retail sector.
+__Project Objectives:__ A customer is a key-centric factor for any business to be successful. Effectively measuring and modeling customer behaviour by understanding what matters the most to them thus devising appropriate strategies can help to enhance the overall customer experience. This eventually helps in the long run towards customer retention and a sustainable growth of the business. Hence, _Understanding the Customer Behavioural Pattern in a Business_ is the crucial problem to be addressed. This project thus aims to address the problem of understanding customer behaviour in the retail sector.
The project intents to discover different analytical insights about the purchase behaviour of the customers through answering the below formulated Research Questions,
__1. Are customers willing to travel long distances to purchase products in spite of the high average product price in a shop?__
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ The dataset to be used is the retail market data of one of the largest Italian r The Supermarket aggr.Customer dataset used for the analysis contains data aggregated from the original datasets^[http://www.michelecoscia.com/?page_id=379] [@pennacchioli2013explaining] and mapped to new columns. The dataset thus contains 40 features with 60,366 instances and is approximately 14.0 MB in size. -__Design overview:__ +__Design Overview:__ -__Time plan:__ +__Time Plan:__ __GitHub Repository:__ https://github.com/Rspawar/Data-Science-with-R.git @@ -97,4 +97,4 @@ __References:__ # Inline R code usng r # A random sample of 5 numbers from the set of numbers between # 1 and 10 is `r sample(1:10, 5)` ---- \ No newline at end of file +--- From aefc5e63a890b5b16d1d77f9c320620522191379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KunduSumit Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:42:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update Design Overview --- Project Proposal.Rmd | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Project Proposal.Rmd b/Project Proposal.Rmd index 9de2944..eee0e9b 100644 --- a/Project Proposal.Rmd +++ b/Project Proposal.Rmd @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ __Background and Motivation:__ __Project Objectives:__ A customer is a key-centric factor for any business to be successful. Effectively measuring and modeling customer behaviour by understanding what matters the most to them thus devising appropriate strategies can help to enhance the overall customer experience. This eventually helps in the long run towards customer retention and a sustainable growth of the business. Hence, _Understanding the Customer Behavioural Pattern in a Business_ is the crucial problem to be addressed. This project thus aims to address the problem of understanding customer behaviour in the retail sector.
-The project intents to discover different analytical insights about the purchase behaviour of the customers through answering the below formulated Research Questions,
+The project intents to discover different analytical insights about the purchase behaviour of the customers through answering the below formulated Research Questions (RQ),
__1. Are customers willing to travel long distances to purchase products in spite of the high average product price in a shop?__
_Relevance:_ This will help to understand whether the price is an important factor affecting the majority of customers purchase decisions.
@@ -60,7 +60,17 @@ The dataset to be used is the retail market data of one of the largest Italian r The Supermarket aggr.Customer dataset used for the analysis contains data aggregated from the original datasets^[http://www.michelecoscia.com/?page_id=379] [@pennacchioli2013explaining] and mapped to new columns. The dataset thus contains 40 features with 60,366 instances and is approximately 14.0 MB in size. -__Design Overview:__ +__Design Overview:__ This section summarizes the algorithms and methods we plan to use in our project.
+ +__1. Support Vector Machine (SVM)__
+We will approach RQ1 as a classification task and hence, use SVM to classify whether a customer is willing to travel long distances to purchase products in spite of the high average product price in a shop?
+ +__2. k-means Clustering__
+RQ2, RQ4 and RQ5 needs us to segment products, customers and shops into multiple clusters. We plan to use k-means clustering to find a solution to the above mentioned research questions. + +__3. Naive Bayes__
+We plan to calculate maximum likelihood estimation of a customer to select a particular shop to purchase a particular product and create a model based on Naive Bayes. + __Time Plan:__