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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

Summary


Predicting customer churn is one of the most common use cases in marketing analytics. Churn prediction not only helps marketing teams to better strategize their marketing campaigns, but also helps organizations to focus their resources wisely.

In this chapter, we explored how to use the data science pipeline for any machine learning problem. We also learned the intuition behind using logistic regression and saw how it is different from linear regression.

We looked at the structure of the data by reading it using a pandas DataFrame. We then used data scrubbing techniques such as missing value imputation, renaming columns, and datatype manipulation to prepare our data for data exploration.

We implemented various data visualization techniques, such as univariate, bivariate, and a correlation plot, which enabled us to find useful insights from the data.

Feature selection is another important part of data modeling. We used a tree-based classifier to select important features for our machine...