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This Repository was created to house my completed notebooks and powerpoint for the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate Capstone Project for predicting Space X Falcon 9 first stage landing success. The date as of writing this readme is 2/19/2022. I hope you enjoy the project!

The Denis O'Byrne IBM Data Science Capstone Project.pdf file is the presentation for the assignment

The notebook files were completed as part of the assignment and all data is hosted online except for the data for the dashboard project so that is provided in the repository Some files like the Plotly Dashboard and the Folium Visualizations need to be run externaly as they are not interactive on github. They should run without issue through jupyter environments on your local computer.

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This is the final course in the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate as well as the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization. This capstone project course will give you the chance to practice the work that data scientists do in real life when working with datasets. In this course you will assume the role of a Data Scientist working for a startup intending to compete with SpaceX, and in the process follow the Data Science methodology involving data collection, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, model development, model evaluation, and reporting your results to stakeholders. You will be tasked with predicting if the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will land successfully. With the help of your Data Science findings and models, the competing startup you have been hired by can make more informed bids against SpaceX for a rocket launch. In this course, there will not be much new learning, instead you’ll focus on hands-on work to demonstrate and apply what you have learnt in previous courses. By successfully completing this Capstone you will have added a project to your data science and machine learning portfolio to showcase to employers.

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Methodology, Github, Jupyter Notebook, Data Science Methodology, K-Means Clustering

Mar 3, 2020

Very good capstone project. Learnt lot of insights on how to represent data through out this course.

Very good starting point for ""Data Science" field. I would definitely recommend this course.

Jun 6, 2020

This Program was well structured, it was a great combination of learning and problem solving. You also got a great chance to see how useful data can be and how easy it is to make it work for you

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In this capstone, we will predict if the Falcon 9 first stage will land successfully. SpaceX advertises Falcon 9 rocket launches on its website, with a cost of 62 million dollars; other providers cost upward of 165 million dollars each, much of the savings is because SpaceX can reuse the first stage. Therefore if we can determine if the first stage will land, we can determine the cost of a launch. This information can be used if an alternate company wants to bid against SpaceX for a rocket launch. In this module, you will be provided with an overview of the problem and the tools you need to complete the course.

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Ibm data science capstone project — battle of the neighborhoods, addressing a business problem using a combination of structured problem solving, data analysis & machine learning.

The cumulation of Coursera’s IBM Data Science Professional Course is a capstone project that requires course participants to identify a business problem that requires the use of location data and neighborhood clustering. The ability to analyze business problems, cut through the noise, and identify the actual issue to be addressed is an important skill to have and constantly hone. If the right questions are not identified, the effectiveness of the model results would be greatly diminished or rendered meaningless. Therefore, I had also applied several of Boston Consulting Group’s problem-solving approaches that I was recently exposed to while working on this project to enhance the framing of the problem statement.

This article provides an overview of the capstone, from the initially proposed problem statement to recommendations.

Introduction/ Business Problem

Data collection & preparation, data visualization & troubleshooting, exploratory data analysis, silhouette method, evaluation & recommendations, other tools.

Context: A client has approached the Consultation firm to advise on the business strategies and execution roadmap on setting up restaurants in Kyoto. The initial business problem question is “Should the Client set up a restaurant chain in Kyoto, and where?”

Rather than diving into the problem and apply machine learning, I deliberated on the business problem and outlined the following considerations which may not be apparent:

a) The Client is targeting to set up restaurant presence in Kyoto

b) They are not certain of the market saturation nor potential locations in Kyoto to act on.

Reframing the problem statement as “What can be done to determine the Client’s business positioning and potential restaurant locations in Kyoto?” With the reframed problem statement, several top-level business drivers viz. Business Strategies, Operations, and Profitability are brought into focus as illustrated below.

Regarding Business Strategies, K-Means clustering will be applied to the relevant restaurants’ geospatial data to cluster restaurants and uncover insights such as restaurant themes and suitable locations.

Two data sources were identified for use. These are:

1) List of Kyoto wards and their respective geo coordinates . The wards list can be retrieved from the following webpage , whereas the corresponding coordinates can be retrieved using the geopy library.

2) Restaurants in each neighborhood of Kyoto . The data can be retrieved using the Foursquare API and specifying the particular category of interest.

The list of Kyoto wards was scraped using the pandas read_html() method.

The pandas get_levels() method is then used to collapse the headers.

The data is then furnished with the geographical coordinates retrieved using the geopy library. A user-agent is specified per Nominatum’s terms of service; it is also to avoid one’s IP address from being blocked from accessing the service.

Visualization of the Kyoto wards is done using the folium library.

It was found that ‘Kita-Ku’ and ‘Minami-Ku of Kyoto are not plotted on the Kyoto Map. One hypothesis their coordinates could be referring to other cities’ wards. To begin, I might check the returned addresses, find the correct coordinates. Lastly, I will replace the corrected coordinates in the data frame.

The returned addresses confirm the hypothesis that the retrieved coordinates are off. Adding the city name “Kyoto” to the ward names enables the correct coordinates to be acquired. The code snippet for this task is reproduced below.

The updated map verifies the corrected coordinates with all eleven wards plotted on the map.

Foursquare API is then utilized to retrieve the data on restaurants in each of these wards. Specifying the criteria to return 100 restaurants within a radius of 500 meters, the result is visualized below. No surprise on Ramen and Japanese restaurants being the most common types of restaurants.

Compared with the other wards, Higashiyama-Ku, Ukyō-Ku, Nishikyō-Ku & Sakyō-Ku have a higher density of restaurants.

Noting the characteristics (i.e. restaurant types by proportion for each ward), K-Means clustering will be applied to cluster these entities and uncover potential insights such as viable restaurant themes and suitable restaurant locations. These insights could enhance the formulation of business strategies.

For K-Means clustering, the optimum number of k first needs to be established. This is a step that could potentially be overlooked. Several methods are available, such as the Elbow method and the Silhouette method. These methods are briefly discussed below.

Elbow Method. The Within-Cluster-Sum of Squared Errors (WSS) is calculated for different values of k. Select the k value for which WSS first starts to decrease (i.e. ‘elbow’). However, if the dataset is not well clustered (i.e. overlapping clusters), the elbow may not be distinct.

Silhouette Method. The Silhouette method measures the similarity of a point to its own cluster, compared to other clusters. The range of the Silhouette coefficients is between +1 and -1. A positive coefficient tending close to +1 indicates the particular point is assigned in the ideal cluster. It also implies point is as practically distanced from the neighboring clusters as possible. A coefficient of zero indicates that the particular point is on or very close to the decision boundary between two neighboring clusters. A negative coefficient indicates that the point has been assigned to the wrong cluster.

The Silhouette method is selected for determining the optimum k value.

The K-Means clustering is then implemented with init=’k-means++’, and random_state=42 for reproducibility of results. The resulting clusters are then plotted.

Examining each cluster based on venue categories, the following observations are derived.

Ramen restaurants are predominantly prevalent in cluster 1. This is closely followed by restaurants offering Asian-styled cuisines such as Chinese, Yoshoku, or Sushi dishes.

Japanese restaurants are predominantly prevalent in cluster 2. This is closely followed by a mix of either Chinese or Ramen or Donburi restaurants.

Udon restaurants are predominantly prevalent in cluster 3, followed by Donburi restaurants.

Exploring the Neighbourhoods in Kyoto, Higashiyama-Ku, Ukyō-Ku and Nishikyō-Ku & Sakyō-Ku have a higher density of restaurants (more than 10 in its area). The higher restaurant density could imply these areas as being more popular with visitors with more tourist attractions in their vicinity.

For example, the ward of Higashiyama-Ku features many historical sights such as the entertainment district of Gion in front of Yasaka Shrine, Ninenzaka, Sannenzaka, and Kiyomizu Temple (designated as World Heritage site). Ukyō-Ku is also home to many famous sites such as Tenryū-Ji, and Arashiyama, a hill famed for its maple leaves.

The Preliminary recommended locations are Higashiyama-Ku and Ukyō-Ku for market entry. Higashiyama-Ku is assigned to cluster 2; a restaurant offering Japanese cuisine could have a higher chance of success with the visitors. Ukyō-Ku is assigned to cluster 1; a restaurant offering Ramen could have a higher chance of success with the visitors. Regardless of the above recommendations, the other fundamentals of F&B service such as quality food & services and strict hygiene practices are not to be overlooked.

For this capstone project, I also tried out the readme.so for the creation and editing of the readme file. The tool provides several predefined templates for editing. Users only need to select the desired templates, make the necessary edits and upload the generated readme file to Github.

I would say the capstone project is an enriching experience with the introduction of an API for data collection and being able to work on geospatial data. While it could have been easy to state a business problem statement and apply a machine-learning technique, the capstone presented a good opportunity to apply BCG’s business problem-solving approaches. It had helped enhance the framing of the problem statement. Without applying these approaches, the capstone could have been more difficult without a clear direction and purpose for machine learning application.

The code for the capstone can be accessed here .

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SpaceX Rocket Delivers Aggie Capstone Project To International Space Station

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon cargo module lifted off from the Florida Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on May 4. The Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-17) launched over 5,550 pounds of NASA cargo into orbit and successfully delivered it to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 6.

Included in this cargo was a Texas A&M University undergraduate capstone team’s final project, an experiment facility known as Hermes, which will be used to conduct experiments on asteroid particles in space.

The team, made up of Multidisciplinary Engineering Technology (MXET) mechatronics students Luis Orozco (embedded software), Dustin Tish (hardware systems) and Jeremy Coffelt (Python software, security and communications), celebrated the culmination of over a year’s work as they watched their project be launched into space.

Mechatronics students

The students took over the Hermes prototype that was developed by an electronic systems engineering technology capstone team and moved their design to the three production systems that underwent testing, validation and acceptance by T STAR, NASA engineers and scientists at the Johnson Space Center.

The first of its kind, Hermes is a Class-1E experiment facility that will host and support four microgravity experiment tubes that will be changed out every three to six months by an ISS mission specialist through 2024. The first set of four Hermes experiments will investigate microgravity effects on regolith (moon dust) simulants.

“This is the type of project that clearly demands the broad-based experiential education available to students pursuing the new MXET mechatronics focus area at Texas A&M,” stated Matthew Leonard, president of T STAR.

Hermes is a self-contained system that is responsible for the monitoring and control of all aspects of the facility. The system is composed of seven embedded intelligence devices. Six of them use a real-time operating system environment to monitor and control particular aspects of the facility or an individual experiment. One of the devices is a BeagleBone Black, which is the overall system and communications manager providing near real-time data and control capabilities for the scientists and engineers on earth. Hermes provides lighting, imagery and vacuum resources to each experiment while transferring all data collected to both the solid-state storage that is part of the experiment cassette and the ISS network drive to enable downloading on Earth. In addition, Hermes supports the addition of an external accelerometer that provides microgravity data to the scientists.

The public-private-academic model of applied research developed by T STAR has made the design and development of Hermes an unprecedented success. Using a capstone project to undertake the initial prototype design before moving that project to an applied research effort for product delivery is a unique approach to developing space-worthy systems within budget and schedule requirements.

Hermes Principal Investigator, Dr. Kristen John

T STAR has implemented this work model in two other Texas A&M capstone projects, Helikite and Cardinal.

Helikite has produced a working prototype capable of measuring small fluctuations in magnetic fields. This system will be tested in late June when it is attached to an ultralight aircraft and then towed by a ground-based vehicle. The system will allow NASA scientists to evaluate whether or not it could one day be used on Mars.

The Cardinal project implements a new approach to collecting asteroid particles at high altitudes. It is intended to be an experimental facility attached to a high-altitude weather balloon. Once launched, it will monitor several environmental parameters including barometric pressure. When a preset altitude is reached, the Cardinal will automatically open its collection chamber and begin rotating the dust collection arm at a fixed rate. Once the system determines that the balloon is in position, the rotating arm will be stowed and the chamber closed. This new concept of collecting particles will provide a longer mission time with less contamination from the collection system itself.

From the Hermes project to Helikite and Cardinal, Aggie students are changing the future of space experimentation and exploration.

This article originally appeared on the College of Engineering website.

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    IBM-Data-Science-Capstone-Project Hello, This Repository was created to house my completed notebooks and powerpoint for the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate Capstone Project for predicting Space X Falcon 9 first stage landing success. The date as of writing this readme is 2/19/2022. I hope you enjoy the project!

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