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Published inJul 2017
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RAJAT MEHTA
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The author is a VP (Technical Architect) in technology in JP Morgan Chase in New York. The author is a sun certified java developer and has worked on java related technologies for more than 16 years. Current role for the past few years heavily involves the usage of bid data stack and running analytics on it. Author is also a contributor in various open source projects that are available on his GitHub repository and is also a frequent write on dev magazines.
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For our case study on customer segmentation using clustering, we will be using a dataset from UCI repository of datasets for a UK online retail store. This retail store has shared its data with UCI and the dataset is freely available on their website. This data is essentially the transactions of different customers made on the online retail store. The transactions were made from different countries and the dataset size is good (thousands of rows). Let's go through the attributes of the dataset:

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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787288980

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RAJAT MEHTA

The author is a VP (Technical Architect) in technology in JP Morgan Chase in New York. The author is a sun certified java developer and has worked on java related technologies for more than 16 years. Current role for the past few years heavily involves the usage of bid data stack and running analytics on it. Author is also a contributor in various open source projects that are available on his GitHub repository and is also a frequent write on dev magazines.
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Attribute name

Description

Invoice number

Invoice number; a number uniquely assigned to each transaction

Stock code

Product (item) code; a 5-digit integral number uniquely assigned to each distinct product

Description

Product item name

Quantity

Quantity of items purchased in a single transaction

Invoice date

Date of the transaction

Unit price

Price of the item (in pounds)

Customer ID

Unique ID of the person making the transaction

Country

Country from where...