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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Example – simulating customer service calls

In this example, we can simulate calls to the customer service which might occur at the beginning and at the end of the week. Management projects that weekend volume will be heavy, with an average of 1500000 calls and an average turnaround time of 4 minutes. Customer service call volume for Monday-Thursday is estimated as handling 1000000 calls with an average turnaround time of 1 minute. We could use this simulation to build a model to include weekends versus nonweekends as new variables in a predictive model:

library(ggplot2) library(grid) library(gridExtra) set.seed(123) MonTuesWedThurs=rnorm(1000000,1,1) FriSatSun=rnorm(1500000,4,1) weekly = c(MonTuesWedThurs,FriSatSun) 

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