Association Rules and Decision Trees in Machine Learning
Unsupervised Machine Learning
Market Basket Analysis (MBA)
- Definition: Identifies relationships between items frequently bought together, aiding businesses in decisions like product placement and cross-selling.
- Output: Generates association rules that describe patterns in transactions.
- Example: {butter, jam} → {bread} implies that buying butter and jam often leads to buying bread.
Association Rules
- LHS (Left-Hand Side): Items frequently purchased together (e.g., {butter, jam}).
- RHS (Right-Hand Side):
Business Optimization: Reengineering, Benchmarking, OLAP, Kaizen, ERP
Reengineering
Reengineering is a process of restructuring and improving a company’s operations. It focuses on cost, quality, service, and speed.
Four keywords:
- Fundamental: Examining the reasons behind current practices.
- Radical: Implementing significant, root-level changes.
- Dramatic: Aiming for substantial improvements, not just incremental ones.
Reengineering is necessary when:
- Performance lags behind the competition.
- The organization is in crisis.
- There are significant market changes.
- The goal is to achieve
Comminution Testing: Size Reduction in Mineral Processing
Comminution Testing
The comminution is a mechanical operation of size reduction, resulting in indirect energy consumption. It is considered that in general the relationship energy – downsizing does not define properly the size reduction process. The relationship between diet and the product of a team of reduction is an approximation and can be directly determined. The effects of operational variables, such as solid feed rate, size reduction equipment, etc., are the factors that require a better understanding.
Read MoreOrganizational Structures and Designs: Key Concepts
Chapter 10: Organizational Structure
Organizational Structure: Formal distribution of employees within an organization.
Organization: The process of creating the organizational structure.
Organizational Design: It is the process in which managers change or redesign the organizational structure, which consists of six steps:
- Work distribution
- Departmentalization
- Chain of command
- Amplitude control
- Centralization and Decentralization
- Formalization
- Specialization of labor (Adam Smith)
Used to describe the extent
Read MoreUnderstanding the Marketing Environment: Macro and Micro Factors
Marketing Environment
The marketing environment of an organization:
“The set of direct and indirect forces, both controllable and uncontrollable, that are susceptible to influence from a micro and macro level, in all its actions, decisions, and results.”
External Marketing Analysis
- Uncontrollable factors in the organization (macro environment).
- Factors with some possible control (micro environment).
- Identify opportunities and threats.
Internal Analysis
- Organizational factors (micro environment).
- Identifies
Design Methodologies: From Munari to Frascara
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari defined projecting as a series of operations arranged in a logical order dictated by experience.
Objective of the Projecting Method
Achieving maximum results with minimum effort. The projecting method is not absolute or definitive. You can change the order of an operation if there are objective values that improve the process.
a. Problem Definition
In any problem, the first thing to do is define the problem as a whole. This serves to define the limits within which the designer
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