Pets-retail-dynamics

Pets retail dynamics

This project has models for different aspects of Pets retail dynamics.

The model

The following mind-map illustrates the scope of the considered model:

Data analysis

In order to build or confirm certain modeling conjectures and assumptions data analysis is made for Seattle pets licensing data. The data was taken from the page "Seattle Pet Licenses".

First simple model

Generally speaking, the System dynamics methodology is used.

The first model uses a lot of simplifying assumptions and deals only with owned dogs and dog food.

Nevertheless, that simple model provides certain insights and it is a good starting point for multiple types of model extensions.

Here is a component interaction diagram:

Here is "a teaser" of how the simple model interactive interface looks like:

Model extensions plan

TBD...

Adding dog ages and weight

Adding cats

Adding birds and other species

Adding retail services

Adding time dependent rates

Calibration

At this point no plans are made to calibrate the model to, say, a particular combination of a geographic region and pets retail company.

References

[1] https://data.seattle.gov .