Your boss wants to know the estimated financial impact of doing a product promotion and gives you a big file of transaction data. Now what? — There are already a lot of good articles on the details of Apriori. I am going to mainly focus on a realistic business scenario that might come up around the application of Apriori and Market Basket Analysis. But it doesn’t hurt to do a quick and high-level refresher on the…

Getting a little creative with Python data visualization using Seaborn and Matplotlib to deliver something a little different. — I use the term hacking loosely here but technically it’s correct. I needed to produce a something that wasn’t readily built in to the core of Matplotlib or Seaborn and get by just passing some argument. But if you want to be pedantic, its just a clever workaround. Feel free…

We had a closet in our old house that we do not want our young boys in for a few reasons — one of them being it was a great spot for hiding gifts. So a while back when I was just getting my feet wet with Python, I wrote…

PuLP for Python is an optimization tool like the Excel Solver (COIN-OR PuLP). I had a use case that didn’t quite fit the out of the box examples provided by the writers of this awesome python package. …

We introduced my 4-year-old son to the classic game of Trouble somewhat recently and he turned out to be probably the luckiest person ever with the game. …