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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

Customer Segmentation Methods


Customer segmentation is the act of separating (segmenting) your target customers into different groups based on demographic or behavioral data so that marketing strategies can be tailored more specifically to each group. Being able to accurately segment a customer population is becoming increasingly important in today's digital world, where products and advertisements are created to target more and more specific subsets of the population. It is also an important part of allocating marketing resources properly because, by targeting specific customer groups, you can achieve higher return on investment for your marketing initiatives.

Every marketing group does some amount of customer segmentation. However, the methods they use to do this might not always be clear. These may be based on intuitions and hunches about certain demographic groups, or they might be the output of some marketing software, where the methods used are actually obscure. There are advantages...