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Data Forecasting and Segmentation Using Microsoft Excel

By : Fernando Roque
Book Image

Data Forecasting and Segmentation Using Microsoft Excel

By: Fernando Roque

Overview of this book

Data Forecasting and Segmentation Using Microsoft Excel guides you through basic statistics to test whether your data can be used to perform regression predictions and time series forecasts. The exercises covered in this book use real-life data from Kaggle, such as demand for seasonal air tickets and credit card fraud detection. You’ll learn how to apply the grouping K-means algorithm, which helps you find segments of your data that are impossible to see with other analyses, such as business intelligence (BI) and pivot analysis. By analyzing groups returned by K-means, you’ll be able to detect outliers that could indicate possible fraud or a bad function in network packets. By the end of this Microsoft Excel book, you’ll be able to use the classification algorithm to group data with different variables. You’ll also be able to train linear and time series models to perform predictions and forecasts based on past data.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – An Introduction to Machine Learning Functions
5
Part 2 – Grouping Data to Find Segments and Outliers
10
Part 3 – Simple and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis
14
Part 4 – Predicting Values with Time Series

Calculating the linear model confidence percentage

The regression line represents the relationship between the variables. The best case is that the difference between the expected values and the model line is minimal, with a low mean and standard deviation. The difference is on the red line in Figure 8.8.

This line follows the formula Y = B0 + B1X:

Figure 8.8 – The difference between the linear model and the dataset

B1 is the slope of the regression line, the change in the Y value (sales – an increase or decrease) for every unit of change in the X value (marketing investment). The formula for B1 is as follows:

Let's look at this formula in more detail:

  • Subtract the mean of all the X values from each value.
  • Subtract the mean of all the Y values from each value.
  • Subtract the mean of all the X values from each value and then square it.

For this example, the B1 slope is 0.0489.

B0 is the intercept of the...