/awesome-datascience-ideas

A list of awesome and proven data science use cases and applications

Awesome Data Science Ideas

A curated list of amazingly awesome data science ideas and use cases. You can use this to get new ideas and share existing ones.

What makes them so awesome? All these ideas should be proven to actually generate value, not just 'cool facts' or 'promising techniques'. They should be applicable now, with data and techniques that are available today. For example: an AI that plays video games, or analyzing heavy metal song lyrics is cool, but it doesn't translate into a meaningful and useful application, so it does not belong here.

Use cases by industry

Banking

  • Basel II compliance
  • Credit scoring
  • Risk management
  • Stress testing

Healthcare

  • Efficiency of care delivery
  • Overconsumption
  • Readmissions
  • Reducing outcome variation

Insurance

Life sciences

Manufacturing

Retail

  • Distribution centre optimization
  • Employee fraud detection
  • Market basket analysis
  • Plannogram optimization
  • SKU forecasting
  • Waste

Telecommunications

  • Asset performance analytics
  • Cell phone tower location optimization
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Routing optimization

Travel

Hotels

  • Dynamic pricing
  • Room occupancy planning

Use cases by department

Call centre

  • TODO

Human Resources

  • Capability analytics
  • Competency forecasting
  • Employee churn analytics
  • Employee performance analytics
  • Network analytics on employee interactions
  • Resume matching, preselection and tagging
  • Workforce planning

Finance

  • Cost analytics
  • Fraud detection
  • Waste and abuse detection

IT

Marketing

Sales

Supply chain

  • Constrained route optimization
  • Demand forecasting
  • Gas purchase optimization
  • Inventory forecasting
  • Optimal routes
  • Warehouse location optimization

License

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