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As described, the overall objective of our project is to help eatigo increase number of bookings per customer. With this in mind, at this stage, our aim is to conduct an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to understand the vendor choice, booking and redemption patterns of eatigo customers across its 8 regions, and 700 restaurants.
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Based on this background, the objective of our project is as follows:
  
From our EDA, we would like to answer the following questions from our datasets :<br />
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1. Business Objective:
1. Analysis of Vendor Data
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To find the booking preferences and key influencing factors that result in a higher number of bookings and then cluster customers based on this to increase number of repeat bookings per customer.
* Variation of booking patterns across cuisines
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*Variation of booking patterns across neighbourhoods
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2. Technical Objective:
*Variation of peak and downtime across restaurants
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To learn and apply statistical tools and data visualization techniques to uncover associations between various variables, and obtain other insights that we can use to fulfill the business objective.
*Understanding the potential of optimizing discounts provided by restaurants within the same neighbourhood
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<br>   i. Understand the Data
2. Analysis of Customer (Transaction & Redemption) Data:
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<br>  ii. Understand the typical booking journey
* Variations of booking patterns across customers that have made bookings previously
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<br>  iii. Identify the influencing factors at each stage of booking
* The average gap between the time booking is made and the time customers have to show up at the restaurant
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<br>  iv. Cluster the customers based on variables with the highest influence
* The customer clusters by restaurant type, location, timing and discount preferences
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<br>  v. Check viability of customer cluster
  
The current objectives may be subject to further changes after we have obtained the actual data.
 
  
 
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Project Background

Our project sponsor, eatigo, currently has 2 million registered users. However, reservation and reactivation rates remain low as only 30% of eatigo's subscribers have ever made a reservation. Further, even amongst this 30%, each customer makes only 1.6 bookings on average per month. Our sponsor believes that there is higher potential, given their presence in markets such as Singapore and Thailand, both of which are amongst the top 3 spenders in South-East Asia when it comes to dining out.

Eatigo’s business model is such that it earns revenue when customers show up for their booking. For every customer that does show up, Eatigo receives a certain fee from the vendors. Therefore, it is crucial for eatigo to have a good vendor listing (so customers are interested in making their booking through eatigo) and ensure that customers are aware of these vendor listings and discounts available (so customers are incentivized to make their booking through eatigo).

Through our project, aim to improve reservation rates amongst subscribers who have never made a booking and reactivation rates amongst subscribers who have made a fewer number of bookings per month. We plan to do this by analysing transaction, redemption and vendor data to reveal booking patterns across customer & vendor types.

Objectives

Based on this background, the objective of our project is as follows:

1. Business Objective: To find the booking preferences and key influencing factors that result in a higher number of bookings and then cluster customers based on this to increase number of repeat bookings per customer.

2. Technical Objective: To learn and apply statistical tools and data visualization techniques to uncover associations between various variables, and obtain other insights that we can use to fulfill the business objective.
i. Understand the Data
ii. Understand the typical booking journey
iii. Identify the influencing factors at each stage of booking
iv. Cluster the customers based on variables with the highest influence
v. Check viability of customer cluster


Data Sources

We are waiting on the data from the sponsor, which we will be receiving once the Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.

We have currently requested for the following categories of data:

  1. Vendor Data
  2. Transaction Data
  3. Redemption Data

Some of the variables that we expect to receive in these datasets include the following:

Vendor Data Transaction Data Redemption Data
Restaurant ID User ID User ID
Country Restaurant Booked ID Restaurant Booking ID
Restaurant Name Country Country
Cuisine Number of Diners Number of Diners
Location (Neighbourhood) Date & Time of Present Booking Date & Time of Present Booking
Opening Hours Date & Time of First Booking Discount Received
Peak Hour Time Booking Type Promotion Code
Planned Discounts Booking Status Booking Status
Maximum Capacity Booking History Showing up History
Cuisine Preferences Cuisine Preferences


References:

 “Singapore Among Top Spenders, Asia Pacific Survey” (http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-among-top-spenders-asia-pacific-dining-survey)
 “How Eatigo has Disrupted the Food Space.” (https://ecommerceiq.asia/eatigo-food-commerce/) 

[Read about our Methodology and Findings! ]