How I Used a Market Basket Analysis to Get a Job Offer
How I used a market basket analysis (or associated rule mining) in a Senior Data Analyst interview take-home task to demonstrate predictive analytics and get a job offer.
Data Stories
The Cost of Living Crisis in your Store Cupboard
Two grocery items you buy everyday saw prices rise above 50% between September 2021 and September 2022: vegetable oil and pasta.
Two saw prices go *down* by more than five percent: beef mince and orange juice.
A can of Heinz Beanz has risen faster than recent Inflation
If a tin of Heinz baked beans followed the path of other tinned goods from 2019. It would cost £0.94 today.
Instead, it costs £1.40.
Yes. A can of Heinz Beanz has risen faster than cost-of-living.
Interest Rates Since 1694
The Bank of England (BoE) has announced today that interest rates will be held at 5.25%. A reminder – from the middle to late half of the 20th century, when we moved from the era of John Maynard Keynes to…