Creating an Analysis in Beam

Use Beam to find correlation between your demand and events data

When you log in to the WebApp 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.

Create Beam Analysis page in the WebApp

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.

Selecting a location in the Create Beam Analysis page

Adding a Saved Location to the list of locations in the Beam Analysis page

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