A brief data story about interesting finds regarding business licences in the City of Vancouver. Behavioural insight was extracted from this data and modelled accordingly.

1. City of Vancouver, A Tale
of Business Licenses
PRESENTED BY:
TA JDARRA
LISA SHIOZAKI
JOSHUA DEJONG
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2. Pipeline
Data
Visualization
Data
Analysis
Predictive
Analytics
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3. Approach/Technology
Insight
Local
Area
Business
Type
Days
Licenced
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4. Visualization
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5. Where are the businesses?
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6. Analysis
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7. Analysis
INTERESTING FACTS
The most common type of business was Office
The area with the most business licenses issued was
“Central/Downtown”
The area that had the most going out of business statuses was
Renfrew/Collingwood
The business type that had the most going out of business
statuses was Public Market - Daily
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8. What are the most common types
and areas of business?
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9. Where are the most businesses
failing and what types?
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10. Where are the most businesses
failing and what types?
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11. Where are the most businesses
failing and what types?
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12. Where are the most businesses
failing and what types?
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13. Prediction
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14. Is there a relation between Business
Type and the amount of days
licensed?
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15. Is there a relation between Business
Type and the amount of days
licensed?
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16. Is there a relation between Business
Type and the amount of days
licensed?
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17. Determining the BusinessType
from DaysLicenced using D-Tree
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Is it an office?