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Market Basket Analysis using Apriori

Credit: Nathália Rosa

Introduction

A Market Basket Analysis (MBA) is an industry-standard in retails to study consumer’s purchasing habits. It helps the retail industry to identify what items are bought together frequently. The whole mechanism is to mine the combinations or associations of items using any retail store’s transaction database.

Ever wondered why there is always chocolate syrup next to icecream stalls in a supermarket? or why you will always find spice rubs next to the meat section selling steaks? These are not coincidences; it is a very well thought out strategy based on Market Basket Analysis.

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How to: Machine Learning for .NET developers

Whenever we talk about machine learning, AI, we always hear about Python and R languages for leveraging these concepts. Though there are other languages like Scala, Ruby, Julia, do you know that you can achieve your machine learning and AI goals using the .NET Framework?

I’ve worked on the .NET, leveraging C# as code behind language, for the better half of my life. Trust me, it’s a powerful framework, especially when combined with C#. And there was no reason for Microsoft to miss the machine learning bandwagon.

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