Deakin MIS772: Predictive Analytics Assignment A2 Data Exploration

This report details the data exploration and preparation process undertaken for MIS772 Predictive Analytics Assignment A2. The assignment focuses on analyzing wine data using RapidMiner. The student begins by addressing the problem statement, which involves exploring wine tasting data to identify similarities between wines and estimate ratings. The report describes the steps taken to downsize the sample data and handle missing values, followed by the application of clustering techniques to group wine varieties and wineries. The executive summary provides context on the Australian wine market and the client's need to predict market demand. The data exploration section outlines the use of RapidMiner operators for data cleaning and attribute selection. The analysis focuses on identifying similar wine categories using clustering, with Pinot Noir being identified as the most similar. The report includes references to relevant research papers and demonstrates the student's ability to apply data mining techniques to address a business problem.

MIS772 Predictive Analytics (2019 T1) Individual Assignment A2-LP3 / Workshops M1, M2T1
Assignment A2-LP3: Data Exploration and Preparation
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Executive summary
It has seen that the Personal and family unit income in Australia have seen a quickening in the course of
the most recent decade or thereabouts (Dhanalakshmi, Bino and Saravanan, 2016). Thusly consuming
meals way from home has expanded. Since wine is generally observed as an integral item 'such dinners
are bound to be joined by wine than suppers eaten at home' Another discernable ongoing pattern that is
likely animated by developing salaries has been a move among Australian wine purchasers toward
premium wines, far from the less expensive, lower quality item that quickened wine utilization.
Under such circumstances, Australian Wine Importers (AWI) is intended to import a new wine type into
the Australian market. However, they have planned to perform few analysis basis the information
available so that they can predict the market demand for specific wine. Understanding the demand trend
not only help to specify the import volumes, but also at the same time help them to set price level as well
as reduction of cost associated with this import.
As they asked to perform a detailed analysis, the analyst has considered the wine test results, with
respect to following variables:
 Wine “title” (name + vintage);
 Country, Province and Region;
 Variety and Winery;
 Description and Designation;
 Price (US$).
In specific, the analyst will apply test mining technique with the help of rapid miner tool. In order to do so,
the analyst has performed clustering and segmentation analysis basis the wine variety and winery
(Roiger, 2017).
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Data exploration and preparation in RapidMiner
In order to perform the study, the first step was downsizing sample data and replacing missing values. In
order to do so, rapid miner sample operator and replace missing value operator have been used.
Further, to select specific attributes, rapid miner select attributes operator has been used. The main
check is to see where esteems are feeling the loss of; the data in this record is generally finished.
Fortunately there isn't any information missing in the depiction and assortment segments, which are the
principle segments I requirement for this examination (Ristoski, Bizer, and Paulheim, 2015). There are 5
missing qualities for nation that I initially filled in by taking a gander at which winery was recorded with
these missing qualities, at that point looked into different sections with that equivalent winery to decide
nation. I needed to do this since I was considering investigating what words are utilized to portray wines
from different nations yet scratched this thought and chose to concentrate just on the distinctive
assortments.
Figure: Data exploration
Presently that the content pre-processing is done, I can at last apply the clustering technique to group
our decision variable. Here, for the clustering technique it needs to introduce k centroids with the goal for
it to begin finding the k groups (Naik, and Samant, 2016). There are a couple of ways to deal with how
the centroids are initialized yet it regularly includes a type of randomization. As a result of this
haphazardness, the calculation isn't deterministic implying that it may think of various bunches in the
event that we run it on different occasions. Accordingly, it is savvy to run the calculation on various
occasions and have it pick the adaptation that has the most minimal inside group change, which I won't
portray here.
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The above table has shown that Pinot Noir is the most similar wine category.
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Reference:
Dhanalakshmi, V., Bino, D. and Saravanan, A.M., 2016, March. Opinion mining from student feedback
data using supervised learning algorithms. In 2016 3rd MEC International Conference on Big Data and
Smart City (ICBDSC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
Naik, A. and Samant, L., 2016. Correlation review of classification algorithm using data mining tool:
WEKA, Rapidminer, Tanagra, Orange and Knime. Procedia Computer Science, 85, pp.662-668.
Ristoski, P., Bizer, C. and Paulheim, H., 2015. Mining the web of linked data with rapidminer. Web
Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 35, pp.142-151.
Roiger, R.J., 2017. Data mining: a tutorial-based primer. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
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