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Data Science for Marketing Analytics

By : Tommy Blanchard, Debasish Behera, Pranshu Bhatnagar
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Data Science for Marketing Analytics

By: Tommy Blanchard, Debasish Behera, Pranshu Bhatnagar

Overview of this book

Data Science for Marketing Analytics covers every stage of data analytics, from working with a raw dataset to segmenting a population and modeling different parts of the population based on the segments. The book starts by teaching you how to use Python libraries, such as pandas and Matplotlib, to read data from Python, manipulate it, and create plots, using both categorical and continuous variables. Then, you'll learn how to segment a population into groups and use different clustering techniques to evaluate customer segmentation. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll explore ways to evaluate and select the best segmentation approach, and go on to create a linear regression model on customer value data to predict lifetime value. In the concluding chapters, you'll gain an understanding of regression techniques and tools for evaluating regression models, and explore ways to predict customer choice using classification algorithms. Finally, you'll apply these techniques to create a churn model for modeling customer product choices. By the end of this book, you will be able to build your own marketing reporting and interactive dashboard solutions.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Data Science for Marketing Analytics
Preface

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we saw how to transform data and attributes obtained from raw sources into expected attributes and values through pandas. After structuring data into a tabular form, with each field containing the expected (correct and clean) values, we can say that this data is prepared for further analysis, which involves utilizing the prepared data to solve business problems. To ensure the best outcomes for a project, we need to be clear about the scope of the data, the questions we can address with it, and what problems we can solve with it before we can make any useful inference from the data.

To do that, not only do we need to understand the kind of data we have, but also the way some attributes are related to other attributes, what attributes are useful for us, and how they vary in the data provided. Performing this analysis on data and exploring ways we can use it, is not a straightforward task. We have to perform several initial exploratory tests on our data...