The X Team at the Retail Hackathon Challenge

Presenting to the judges: Kazi Ahmed, Lucas Zamboni, Bree Dorant, Nelson Ning and Edward Kao. Getting snacks: Daniel Ko & Lucie Jeffers   Our Team “I liked working as a team and seeing how we help each other. (We also) learnt a lot more about how retail/shopping malls w

The Funnel of Love: Valentine’s Day 2016 By the Numbers

Here at Project X, we’re no strangers to love – we love data. We are passionate about it. In honour of this upcoming Valentine’s Day, we’d like to spread our love by sharing some interesting consumer statistics from Valentine’s Day 2016 in North America. The Big Number Total estimated

Top 6 Data Visualization Projects of 2016

At Project X we are passionate about data, and are continually inspired by the creative ways data scientists and artists make large data sets accessible to the public at large. With the new year having just begun, we want to take this time to reflect on our favourite data visualizatio

Interpreting Predictive Analytics with a Grain of Salt

Predictive Analytics can be very helpful: algorithms can help retailers decide what quantities of items to order, detect instances of financial fraud or help allocate resources to control the spread of a disease. However, while these predictive tools are helping change lives for the b