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Data Science for Marketing Analytics

By : Tommy Blanchard, Debasish Behera, Pranshu Bhatnagar
Book Image

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, you learned about the most common data science pipeline: OSEMN. You also learned how to pre-process, explore, model, and finally, interpret data. In this chapter, you will learn how to evaluate the performance of the various models and choose the most appropriate one. Choosing an appropriate machine learning model is an art that requires experience, and each algorithm has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Picking the right performance metrics, optimizing, fine-tuning, and evaluating the model is an important part of building any supervised machine learning model. We will start by using the most common Python machine learning API, scikit-learn, to build our logistic regression model, then we will learn different classification algorithm, and the intuition behind them, and finally, we will learn how to optimize, evaluate, and choose the best model.