Background

Nowadays, the retail e-commerce share has been growing with a incredibly fast pace around the world. For US, in 2016, online sales of physical goods amounted to 360.3 billion US dollars and are projected to surpass 603.4 billion US dollars in 2021. Despite this fast growth, United States actually rank behind several countries in terms of e-commerce sales as percentage of total retail sales - in 2016, almost a fifth of China’s retail sales occurred via the internet, compared to only 8.1 percent in the United States. The UK, South Korea, and Denmark are also ahead of the U.S. in terms of retail e-commerce share.

Hard to believe that 2/3 of the bootcamp has already past. As the graduation day coming closer, I start to think about job searching.

Why this topic?

The second project is about applying the knowledge that we learned about linear regression.

This Monday, I started my first week of this intense yet exciting 12-week Data Science Bootcamp with Metis. Right away, we were divided into groups of 3 to start working on our first project which will be due in 4 days applying the knowledge/tools we just learned. The objective of the project was to make recommendation to a hypothetical client “Women Tech, Women Yes” on how they should allocate their volunteers for their upcoming fund raising event, the WTWY Gala, so that they could optimize collection of signatures and gala attendance.