""" developed by: markmelnic original repo: https://github.com/markmelnic/Scoring-Algorithm Analyse data using a range based percentual proximity algorithm and calculate the linear maximum likelihood estimation. The basic principle is that all values supplied will be broken down to a range from 0 to 1 and each column's score will be added up to get the total score. ========== Example for data of vehicles price|mileage|registration_year 20k |60k |2012 22k |50k |2011 23k |90k |2015 16k |210k |2010 We want the vehicle with the lowest price, lowest mileage but newest registration year. Thus the weights for each column are as follows: [0, 0, 1] >>> procentual_proximity([[20, 60, 2012],[23, 90, 2015],[22, 50, 2011]], [0, 0, 1]) [[20, 60, 2012, 2.0], [23, 90, 2015, 1.0], [22, 50, 2011, 1.3333333333333335]] """ def procentual_proximity(source_data: list, weights: list) -> list: """ weights - int list possible values - 0 / 1 0 if lower values have higher weight in the data set 1 if higher values have higher weight in the data set """ # getting data data_lists = [] for item in source_data: for i in range(len(item)): try: data_lists[i].append(float(item[i])) except IndexError: # generate corresponding number of lists data_lists.append([]) data_lists[i].append(float(item[i])) score_lists = [] # calculating each score for dlist, weight in zip(data_lists, weights): mind = min(dlist) maxd = max(dlist) score = [] # for weight 0 score is 1 - actual score if weight == 0: for item in dlist: try: score.append(1 - ((item - mind) / (maxd - mind))) except ZeroDivisionError: score.append(1) elif weight == 1: for item in dlist: try: score.append((item - mind) / (maxd - mind)) except ZeroDivisionError: score.append(0) # weight not 0 or 1 else: raise ValueError("Invalid weight of %f provided" % (weight)) score_lists.append(score) # initialize final scores final_scores = [0 for i in range(len(score_lists[0]))] # generate final scores for i, slist in enumerate(score_lists): for j, ele in enumerate(slist): final_scores[j] = final_scores[j] + ele # append scores to source data for i, ele in enumerate(final_scores): source_data[i].append(ele) return source_data