Is This Client a Restaurant or a Shop?
From a year of spending on fresh food, milk, groceries, frozen goods, detergents and delicatessen, is this client a hotel or restaurant, or a retailer? Getting the channel right decides which sales team calls.
The table
440 clients of a Portuguese wholesaler with annual spending by product category and region, labelled Horeca or Retail. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Wholesale Customers Annual Spending, 440 rows by 9 columns, licensed CC BY 4.0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.83. At 440 rows and 8 features, TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium, Mitra-v2 and TabDPT 1.3 take the table as it is.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="wholesale customers annual spending", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end, and keep the rest for the models to learn from.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium", "mitra-v2", "tabdpt-1.3"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features), "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "wholesale customers annual spending", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Customers
- Question
- Is This Client a Restaurant or a Shop?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium, Mitra-v2, TabDPT 1.3
- Data
- Wholesale Customers Annual Spending, 440 rows
- For
- Wholesale sales teams and marketing analysts
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0