M.S. Applied Data Science - Capstone Chronicles 2025

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Improvements to community detection could begin upstream with the exploration of additional clustering techniques such as KMEANs or DBSCAN. The results of which could then be used in the recommendations scoring algorithm to produce better candidates for business partnerships. Looking far ahead, future iterations could explore employing graph neural networks to try to capture cross-shopping patterns across both space and time, utilizing all available data to predict what potential new businesses should open and where.

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