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Working with Andrew Clark on optimizing purchasing with data
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Finding product categories #5

Closed choldgraf closed 9 years ago

choldgraf commented 9 years ago

It looks like this is going to be a fairly difficult thing to with with the current data. Here's what Andrew said:

Categorization is difficult. I can get you a “general classification” of the spend, but it will be messy.

He'll send something soon, but it looks like we may need to figure this out ourselves.

dariusmehri commented 9 years ago

i was just thinking about this and something hit me that may be useful: the suppliers typically specialize in supplying specific products so maybe we can categorize according to specialty, i.e a supplier that supplies software will unlikely sell chemicals, and so on

choldgraf commented 9 years ago

I think that's a good idea. This would work for the more specialized suppliers. Some might be too "general" (e.g., Staples), but I think it's worth trying to see how it comes out.

Maybe we could pick the 100 most common suppliers, and categorize each one?

choldgraf commented 9 years ago

Closed because @juanshishido is working on this with #9