Principles of Data Science for Business: Assessment of Verdilan Horticulture Outline

This paper proposes a feasible flower classification based on the original paper by Fisher in 1936. It uses a similar dataset obtained from https://www.kaggle.com/abhijeetupadhyay/classifying-flowers-using-kNN. The paper will use Excel’s xlstat add-in to conduct kNN classification of the flowers. Our investigation follows the process of importing of data into the analysis environment before drawing any insights regarding the results obtained. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of flower classification as a means to base the firm’s decisions as whether to repeat orders or not. Ethical and security considerations are also discussed.