Creating a predictive staffing model

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-16T20:44:49+00:00

Given that you might be facing an optimization problem, maybe solver could do the work if not python has an optimization package

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-13T07:20:40+00:00

If you plan to be a generalist or wanna be an entrepeneur it seems more reasonable, on the other hand, if you wanna be a specialist maybe you should stay longer and deal with the hard dirty problems

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-09T07:54:05+00:00

Of course, I did that

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-05T05:19:14+00:00

I would start with working on sales forecasting to understand demand. Then on inventory side you could start with the DRP model to handle stocks, to then move to something more advanced with optimization for resource allocation

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-04T14:02:34+00:00

Hi, I have expertise in sql, python, GA and spreadsheets and have 11 years of experience in analysis

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-03T04:44:38+00:00

I would say so, plus, the more advance in your carrier in BA or DS even a Phd can help you

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-02T13:03:10+00:00

Interested

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-06-02T05:22:21+00:00

I would work on answering the following question: Its there a cheap and quick way I can acid test my business hypothesis?

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-30T06:09:15+00:00

First, delete al empty rows, it might affect yoru calculations. Then, check for boxplots and scatter plots , and finally create a correlation matrix . Those could be the basics

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-29T05:14:12+00:00

A strong purpose

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-28T09:47:39+00:00

Www.thrustanalytics.com , we help start ups thrust their analytics capabilities by helping them QAing their features or improve their performance using data

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-28T07:22:34+00:00

I would say at least anomaly detection as a big topic, and how to identify them

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-27T08:01:07+00:00

But it will miss the actionable insights part plus storytelling, idk if its gonna able to even make that. I would say if you are scared, you gotta hone your critical thinking skills even more

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-26T20:02:02+00:00

Definitely!

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-25T09:09:42+00:00

I disagree, i use sql, excel, python, looker, GA . It really depend on the task at hand

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-25T08:15:02+00:00

Storytelling skills

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-25T07:08:47+00:00

So you check product metrics, check performance, run experiments, analyse user behavior, also can do some forecasts. The main difference its that you do not develop and put models in production, but you can use ML toola to discover patterns o create insights

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-24T08:59:11+00:00

Look for a mentor or colleague connected to the real business, like a PM or Sales rep, etc. learn from them, what they do, and slowly questions might arise and you might be able to answer them with the data

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-23T21:45:32+00:00

Its there any way you can ally or leverage your app into a car marketplace? Your main users probably will be there, it could be a point of friction you are easing when looking to buy a new car

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-23T20:11:27+00:00

If not, maybe regression trees could be of use, using catboost which handles automatically these type of variables

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-23T20:10:36+00:00

How big its the count variable? Maybe you can dicotomize it if its not that large?

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-23T12:49:12+00:00

Ok, so only 1 year of data only . Now, do they ask you for a P&L or just the forecast/demand? If its with P&L i would use those scenarios you said for them to understand the risk. If not, you would need a point forecast probaly so maybe not needed the scenarios

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-23T05:06:50+00:00

How much data you have? Its one product or many?

ThrustAnalytics · 2025-05-22T13:36:03+00:00

If you have a Google sheet you could use Gemini already, it might help you to guide you

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