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Python Business use case assignment

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Comprehensive Data Analysis and

Visualization for Retail Business


Optimization
Context
In today's competitive retail landscape, businesses must leverage data to optimize their
operations, enhance customer experience, and drive profitability. This assignment places
you in the role of a data analyst at a retail company seeking to enhance its business through
a comprehensive analysis of sales data. You will employ various programming and data
analysis techniques to clean, process, and visualize data, ensuring it aligns with industry
best practices and standards.

Content
As a data analyst, you will work with a dataset containing sales records, customer
information, and product details. Your tasks will involve utilizing object-oriented
programming principles, working with Python modules and packages, handling files, and
scraping data from the web. Additionally, you will perform data manipulation using NumPy
and Pandas, and create visualizations with Matplotlib, Plotly, and Seaborn to uncover
insights and present your findings effectively.

Data Description
The dataset for this assignment is publicly available on Kaggle and consists of the following
files:
1. Sales Data: Contains transactional sales records, including transaction ID, product ID,
customer ID, date of purchase, quantity, and price.
2. Customer Data: Includes customer demographics such as age, gender, location, and
loyalty membership status.
3. Product Data: Lists product details like product ID, name, category, and supplier
information.

Dataset Link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kyanyoga/sample-sales-data

Objective
The objective of this assignment is to integrate various programming, data handling, and
visualization skills to perform a comprehensive analysis of the sales data. By the end of this
assignment, you should be able to:
1. Apply object-oriented programming (OOP) principles in Python.
2. Utilize Python modules and packages for data handling and web scraping.
3. Perform data cleaning, manipulation, and analysis using NumPy and Pandas.
4. Create insightful visualizations using Matplotlib, Plotly, and Seaborn.
5. Implement best practices and PEP standards in your Python code.

Tasks
1. Data Loading and Inspection
- Load the sales, customer, and product datasets into Pandas DataFrames.
- Inspect the data for missing values, inconsistencies, and outliers.

2. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Implementation


- Define classes for Customer, Product, and SalesTransaction.
- Implement constructors and destructors for these classes.
- Demonstrate inheritance by creating a subclass for a specific type of customer (e.g.,
VIPCustomer) that inherits from the Customer class.

3. Data Cleaning and Transformation


- Handle missing values and correct data inconsistencies.
- Transform data types where necessary (e.g., date formatting).
- Merge the datasets to create a unified DataFrame for analysis.

4. Python Modules and Packages


- Create a custom Python module for data cleaning functions.
- Utilize built-in modules like os, time, and sys to manage files and system operations.
- Fetch additional data from a REST API using the requests module (e.g., exchange rates for
currency conversion).

5. File Handling
- Write functions to read, append, and handle files in Python.
- Save cleaned data to new CSV files.

6. Web Scraping
- Use BeautifulSoup or Scrapy to scrape additional data (e.g., product reviews) from a
relevant e-commerce website.

7. Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas


- Perform numerical operations and linear algebra using NumPy.
- Manipulate and analyze data using Pandas (e.g., filtering, grouping, and aggregating
data).
- Load data from various formats (CSV, Excel, JSON) and export analysis results to different
formats.
8. Data Visualization
- Create basic plots (line plot, scatter plot, pie chart, bar plot) using Matplotlib.
- Enhance visualizations with annotations and customizations.
- Create interactive plots using Plotly (e.g., histograms, bar plots).
- Generate advanced visualizations with Seaborn (e.g., countplot, barplot, scatterplot).

9. Geospatial Analysis
- Utilize latitude and longitude data for creating maps and charts.
- Plot customer distribution and sales hotspots on a map.

10. Programming Best Practices


- Follow PEP standards for code style and documentation.
- Write efficient, readable, and reusable code.
- Implement error handling and debugging strategies.

11. Problem-solving and Debugging with ChatGPT


- Use ChatGPT to assist in solving coding problems and debugging your scripts.

12. Final Report and Presentation


- Summarize your findings and insights in a comprehensive report.
- Create a presentation with key visualizations and insights for stakeholders.

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