https://yazidk.netlify.app/ Recent content on Yazid's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/2021/07/16/rossman-store-sales-prediction/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/2021/07/16/rossman-store-sales-prediction/ The following project studies a Kaggle use case to predict sales volume for Rossman drug store. An overview of the predictors used, evaluation metrics and leaderboards and be found Here Rossmann operates over 3,000 drug stores in 7 European countries. Currently, Rossmann store managers are tasked with predicting their daily sales for up to six weeks in advance. Store sales are influenced by many factors, including promotions, competition, school and state holidays, seasonality, and locality. https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/08/19/machine-learning-twitter-analysis/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/08/19/machine-learning-twitter-analysis/ Twitter hosts the perfect enviroment for text analysis, the icing on the cake is the rtweet package. The rtweet package provides an API to gather text data on twitter easily, it contains an option to specify the geographical location. Every tweet that has the keyword “machine learning” as a plain text or a hashtag is collected and tokenized (split up to individual words), common words such as “the”, “of” and “to” are removed since they are not useful and do not add value to the analysis. https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/08/04/pubg-win-predictions-using-random-forests/ Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/08/04/pubg-win-predictions-using-random-forests/ PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by PUBG Corporation. In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The available safe area of the game’s map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round. https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/07/22/methods-that-helped-in-learning-r/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/2019/07/22/methods-that-helped-in-learning-r/ This post is going to be an extended version of “About me”, how I think, solve issues and how I learned R language on my own. Having finished my Bacholers degree in Industrial Engineering and putting a stop to my E-sports career, I decided to re-ignite my interest in data science from my previous work. I had zero experience in coding and moderate statistical knowledge. Since I have stopped working, I built an 8 hour schedule per day rule of studying R and I stuck to it, I tried to learn everything, even if I did not fully absorb the material I would power through, however frustrating it might be, it will be worth it when the “light bulb” in your head switches on , and you start understanding the topic better. https://yazidk.netlify.app/about/ Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yazidk.netlify.app/about/ I am an Industrial engineer, graduated in 07/2017 from the German Jordanian University including a one year work program in Germany, which was mainly focused on Data analysis. Having a hobby in E-sports allowed me to professionally follow this career path for one and a half years after graduating. Travelling to Malaysia, China, Dubai, Lebanon and Abu Dahbi to compete.Unfortunatly, due to the E-sports growth and development in the Middle east, continuing this path was filled with uncertainty.