Enterprise Real-Time Market Analytics & Machine Learning Food Price Forecasting Platform in Egypt.
# 🇪🇬 AMAN: Egypt Food Price Intelligence Platform
### Enterprise Real-Time Market Analytics, Fair-Pricing Auditing & Machine Learning Forecasting
An end-to-end academic machine learning capstone platform for monitoring, benchmarking, auditing, and forecasting food commodity prices across 23 Egyptian governorates.
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## Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Academic Capstone Team
- The Problem Statement
- Platform Objectives
- System Architecture
- Dataset & Feature Pipeline
- Comprehensive Model Benchmark (11 Models)
- Production Deployment Rationale
- Fair-Price Auditing Intelligence
- Forward Forecasting Engine
- Spatial & Geospatial Intelligence
- Interactive Dashboard Architecture
- Bilingual (Arabic / English) Engine
- Technology Stack
- Repository Structure
- Getting Started & Local Deployment
- Reproducibility & Serialization Artifacts
- Monitoring & Production Reliability
- Project Impact & Strategic Vision
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## Executive Summary
**AMAN** is an enterprise-grade food price intelligence platform built as an academic graduation capstone project. The system translates raw market transactions across **23 Egyptian governorates** and **22 core commodities** into actionable economic intelligence.
By incorporating spatial logistics, seasonal surges, and macroeconomic inflation, the platform determines fair equilibrium commodity pricing. Following a rigorous empirical evaluation of **11 distinct machine learning architectures**, an optimized **Linear Regression pipeline with logarithmic target scaling** was selected for production deployment. It achieves an explanatory power of **Test R² = 98.93%**, an average error of **Test MAE = 6.67 EGP**, and an ultra-tight **Generalization Gap of +0.06%** with zero-latency inference.
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## Academic Capstone Team
This project was developed through a specialized division of responsibilities across the machine learning lifecycle:
| Team Member | Project Role | Engineering Scope & Core Responsibilities | L …