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Digitised Plot 9 of the florsitic analysis data collected by Greg Forsyth in the Swartboskloof catchment in 1987. Prepared by Jason Ross

This report uses unsupervised learning to identify order experience clusters in the Olist marketplace. The clusters are created from delivery, freight, order complexity, payment, and customer geography variables. Review outcomes are deliberately excluded from clustering and are used only after clustering to understand how each experience profile relates to customer satisfaction. The analysis answers a practical customer satisfaction question: which types of order experiences look risky or positive even when customers do not leave a review?

Figure X shows that fuel scarcity in Nigeria has largely been driven by the widening gap between black-market and officially regulated fuel prices, with both scarcity and fuel prices increasing sharply after 2022, indicating growing distortions in the fuel market and a deterioration in fuel availability.

Figure X illustrates the evolution of Nigeria's officially regulated petrol pump price between 1980 and 2024. The figure reveals prolonged periods of price stability during the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a succession of incremental price adjustments from the mid-1990s onward. The most pronounced change occurs in 2023, when the official pump price increases dramatically following the removal of fuel subsidies. This suggests that fuel-pricing decisions are not purely market-driven but are strongly influenced by political and fiscal considerations. The timing of major price adjustments appears consistent with the political economy argument that governments may delay politically costly reforms until electoral pressures have subsided.