Our Approach

01. Project Definition

The first step towards a successful data analytics project is to clearly define the objectives of the project and formulating the right hypotheses. We work closely with our clients to understand their specific investment portfolio and goals, in order to achieve their targets. Our market research analysts constantly keep themselves updated on the latest news and trends on commodities such as iron ores and pass the data to our data analytics team who will then act upon those data.

02. Data Collection

Our market research team carefully pulls the right data from various secondary sources such as Bloomberg and other stock exchanges on various commodity trade information such as:

1. Prices (opening price, closing price, high price, low price)
2. Trading Volume
3. Open Interest Rate

In addition, we combine these quantitative data with other qualitative data to make sense of the commodities industry before proceeding with more in-depth analysis.

03. Data Processing

In order for data analysis to be performed, data processing is necessary to ensure that raw data are being structured into the right format. By manipulating the raw data into the relevant rows and columns, it makes data analysis easier and manageable down the road – an important step not to be missed.

04. Data Cleaning

Data cleaning (also known as data wrangling) is one of the most important steps of every data analytics project. At Tivlon Technologies, we adopt the following data analytics approach towards our data cleaning process:

05. Exploratory Data Analysis

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) helps us to determine the relationships among the explanatory variables, assess the skewness, direction, and strength of relationships between explanatory and outcome variables. We leverage on various tools and software to aid us in our EDA process, which includes Microsoft Excel, R, PowerBI, and RapidMiner.

06. Model Development

Model development is the process where begin to develop our predictive models using the various machine learning techniques such as Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks etc. We adopt a traditional process where we split our cleaned data into training and test sets (typically in a ratio of 75%:25% respectively). Once that is done, we began training our model using the training set and deriving the best model by testing it with our test sets to determine the accuracy and precision.

07. Model Refinement

As seen in our Predictive Modelling process, the model refinement process is one that is highly iterative as we strive to achieve the best model that is the most robust and accurate. We often review the performance of our model through the use of Confusion Matrices to determine the number of True Positives and False Negatives that our model is capable of achieving.

08. Insights & Reporting

Finally, we present the insights and prediction results in the form of easy-to-understand visualization in the form of presentation and reports. We also offer our clients actionable recommendations to aid them in making more informed investment decisions, and ultimately achieving a good portfolio and track record for their trading history.