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Hands-On Data Science for Marketing

By : Yoon Hyup Hwang
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Hands-On Data Science for Marketing

By: Yoon Hyup Hwang

Overview of this book

Regardless of company size, the adoption of data science and machine learning for marketing has been rising in the industry. With this book, you will learn to implement data science techniques to understand the drivers behind the successes and failures of marketing campaigns. This book is a comprehensive guide to help you understand and predict customer behaviors and create more effectively targeted and personalized marketing strategies. This is a practical guide to performing simple-to-advanced tasks, to extract hidden insights from the data and use them to make smart business decisions. You will understand what drives sales and increases customer engagements for your products. You will learn to implement machine learning to forecast which customers are more likely to engage with the products and have high lifetime value. This book will also show you how to use machine learning techniques to understand different customer segments and recommend the right products for each customer. Apart from learning to gain insights into consumer behavior using exploratory analysis, you will also learn the concept of A/B testing and implement it using Python and R. By the end of this book, you will be experienced enough with various data science and machine learning techniques to run and manage successful marketing campaigns for your business.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
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Section 2: Descriptive Versus Explanatory Analysis
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Section 3: Product Visibility and Marketing
10
Section 4: Personalized Marketing
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Section 5: Better Decision Making

Data-Driven Customer Segmentation

In marketing, we often try to understand the behavior of certain subgroups of the customer base. Especially in targeted marketing, marketers try to segment the customer base in certain ways and focus on each target segment or customer group. This concentration on certain target customer segments results in better performance, as the needs and interests of those customers in the target group align and match better with the business's products, services, or content.

In this chapter, we are going to dive deeper into the concept of customer segmentation. We will discuss what customer segmentation is, the importance and benefits of having a good understanding of different segments of the customer base, and how to utilize customer segment analysis results for different marketing strategies. Aside from a more traditional way of segmenting the customer...