Lubrizol are speciality chemicals experts. Their chemistry enhances practically every facet of life, from the way you move, to how you take care of yourself, to how you work. The Statistics and Data Analytics team builds models to help predict how our chemistry will perform and builds tools to speed up the product development process.
This project will examine how our products, and as a result our different types of chemistry, perform within a test.
Questions which will be addressed include:
- What chemistry groups are influential on a test? And which are not?
- Within chemistry groups, which predictor variables best describe the effect?
- Are there any outliers in the data? How do these influence the results?
- Building a robust model which predicts how their chemistry performs for new formulations?
If you use windows, and are unfamiliar with git, this provides a quick guide:
Download git : https://git-scm.com/
Other options are availble, but this will be command line based
Go to where you plan to keep this project, and right click, select "Git Bash Here" and then run the following command
git clone https://github.com/K-Molloy/lubrizol-variable-selection.git
Go into the folder you just created, either with cd or by creating a new terminal. And create a branch using the git checkout command and replace 'your-name' with your first name.
git checkout -b <your-name>
If you add, delete or change any file in the project then run
git status
you can see the changes you have made. Add those changes by running
git add README.md
for each file, you can use the flag -A but I would avoid this at first. You then commit using, the -m indicated adding a message to your commit, this can be helpful when looking at previous work you have done
git commit -m "Adding README.md"
Push your changes to github using git push, with the branch name you created earlier
git push origin -u <your-name>
If you go to the github repo and find your branch, there will be a compare and pull request button. Click that and add a few comments about what changes have been made in your branch, then submit the pull request. Soon the changes will be merged into the main branch