Our First Guess – a Linear Regression

Still smiling from the successful EDA you just obtained, you follow Andy, the colleague who helped you with it, and walk into the office of your boss, Mr. Sheen: Have you finally discovered where all this mess is coming from? Not exactly what you would call a warm welcome, I agree.

Nevertheless, your colleague seems to be quite used to these kinds of high-pressure situations and quietly starts to expose all the analyses you have performed, from the summary statistics to the graphical EDA. Your boss is some kind of hybrid profile and Andy knows that: exposing your work with a sufficient level of detail will help your boss understand that, despite the great hurry the work was done in, it was done in the most accurate way possible. 

Andy finally comes to the point—the cash flow recorded within the last quarter is coming...