Creating a Beam analysis

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Use Beam to find correlation between your demand and events data

Creating an analysis in Beam

When you log in to Control Center as a user, you will see the Beam option on the left-hand side menu bar.

Clicking on the Beam link or icon will direct you to an empty screen or will show a list of previous analyses.

An analysis using Beam means that you have uploaded demand data for a specific location, within the time-period defined by the uploaded data. Beam takes the demand data together with PredictHQ daily aggregated attendance data to look for the effect on demand caused by events and finds a correlation. The results are shown in different formats:

  • AI analysis

  • A time series graph

  • Table

  • PDF report

  • View ML features option

  • Export a CSV

Each visualization contains information on the correlation analysis determined by Beam.

To initiate the analysis in Beam, click on Create New Analysis in the top right-hand corner, and you should see the screen below, prompting you to input details about your business.

Creating a Beam Analysis

Name

Input the desired name of your analysis. This is free form, but suggest inputting a name that you can recall and differentiate if subsequent similar analyses are made.

For example: nameofuser_daterange_analysisdate_analysiscount.

  • nameofuser: Record multiple users or departments testing out Beam for different purposes.

  • daterange: Represents the range of dates within the data set that should be able to distinguish between two analysis across different periods.

  • analysisdate and analysiscount: The date of analysis and the number of the analysis to keep track of multiple analyses.

For example JSmith_Boston_2018_20200403_1

Location

When creating an analysis in Beam, it's essential to specify the location of interest. You can specify the location of interest by simply selecting a location from your Saved Locations list or adding a new one. Remember, only a Street Address and Radius location type are suitable for Beam Correlation.

To add a location, click the "Add Location" button in the Location dropdown menu. Check here for more details.

Choosing a location - Beam
Adding a location - Beam

When you create a location this sets a radius using the suggested radius feature. The Beam analysis looks for events within this radius.

For the next step see how to upload your demand data to Beam