Tech Corner

Forecasting and Prediction: An Advanced Business Analytics Case Study

Opti-Num Solutions Advanced Business Analytics Team was approached by a telecommunications company to recommend and implement pricing strategy changes on one of their products in order to maintain its KPIs during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown and its various levels.

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Weathering the Storm: An Introduction to Climate Risk with MATLAB

In this article, Application Engineer Verushen Coopoo introduces the concept of Climate Risk and why it may be of interest to those in finance. The article links to a machine learning model, implemented in MATLAB, to predict the damage costs of various weather events.

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Smart Mining & Manufacturing: Predictive Maintenance Using an Unlabelled Dataset

In the previous article we went through a supervised learning approach for Predictive Maintenance. However, with a conservative maintenance schedule [...]

Modelling with Categorical Variables

Building predictive models or analysing data to glean insights from the data is relatively easy when working with numerical data. [...]

Text Analytics for data-driven decision making

Text Analytics is a technique used to understand consumer’s opinions regarding products and services. The way people discuss their experience on public platforms, such as social media and blogs, provides insights for businesses on how to adapt [...]

Explainability for machine learning models in MATLAB

As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in financial industries, its use presents considerable opportunities but also challenges. AI models have [...]

Predictive Maintenance Using a Labelled Dataset

In this article we look at a practical example of Predictive Maintenance where we are given synthetic data from a [...]

Part 4: Four Common Obstacles of Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance has a lot of benefits, from reducing unplanned downtime, lowering maintenance costs to extending equipment life. It is no wonder maintenance managers are looking to apply these technologies to their processes.  In this series, we started [...]

Premier League Prediction Using Deep Learning

The English Premier League is one of the world’s most hotly contested footballing competitions, in which 20 teams battle it [...]

Automation for Downloading, Processing and Extraction of CPI Data

Increased consumer expectations and aggressive competition for a finite customer pool are driving service fees down substantially. Executives are driving [...]

Part 3: How to Estimate Remaining Useful life with MATLAB

The purpose of Predictive Maintenance is to estimate the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of your equipment. RUL is the length of time your equipment is likely to operate before it requires repair [...]

Machine Learning for Fundamental Analysis

In South Africa, the number of businesses listed on the JSE is few compared to some international stock exchanges, therefore [...]

Part 2: Using Condition Indicators for Predictive Maintenance

Knowing how to predict equipment failure, rather than just reacting to failure, can mean significant benefits for your business, from reduced downtimes to extended equipment life! When looking at [...]

An Approach to Advanced Business Analytics

At Opti-Num Solutions, we believe in walking the journey with our clients as we work together to bring vision to [...]

Feature Selection made easy with ‘screenpredictors’

Pre-processing of features or predictor variables for the development of machine learning models is usually a tedious process. The MathWorks [...]

Part 1: What is Predictive Maintenance?

Equipment used in the mining and manufacturing industries can fail without warning, which leads to unplanned downtime, higher maintenance costs [...]

Conifers for Crypto – Bitcoin Volatility Forecasting Using Machine Learning

Verushen Coopoo, Application Engineer Opti-Num Solutions (2019) In this script, we demonstrate MATLAB’s machine learning abilities to build a regression [...]

SuperBru Predictions with AI

Congrats to the Boks! For the recent Rugby World Cup a few members of the Opti-Num team participated in a [...]

AI in Industry 4.0: I have all this sensor data… Now what?

Predictive maintenance uses data to monitor the condition of equipment. Using fourth industrial revolution techniques means reduced failures, less machine [...]

Accessing Equity Data using a MATLAB Web App

Timely and convenient access to data is crucial in the world of finance to enable rapid and informed decision-making.  To [...]

Constructing the Optimal Portfolio with MATLAB and Smart Beta

Verushen Coopoo, Application Engineer Opti-Num Solutions (2019) In this script, we demonstrate the strength of MATLAB’s optimisation capabilities to construct [...]

Drones: Reaching New Heights in Education

Are you looking to make your classes more relevant and engaging? Drones have increased functionality and have decreased in size, [...]