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Hands-On Data Science for Marketing

By : Yoon Hyup Hwang
Book Image

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)
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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
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Section 4: Personalized Marketing
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Section 5: Better Decision Making

A/B Testing for Better Marketing Strategy

When building different marketing strategies, whether your idea is going to work or not. Typically, there is a lot of guesswork involved when coming up with new marketing ideas, and often there is a lack of tools, resources, or even motivation to test whether any of your marketing ideas will work. However, this way of putting your marketing strategy ideas into work is risky and can be very costly. What if you spent lots of money on your new marketing campaign and it did not help you reach your marketing goal at all? What if you spent hundreds of hours refining your marketing message and it never attracted your prospects to engage with your marketing message?

In this chapter, we are going to discuss a way of testing your marketing ideas before you fully commit to them. More specifically, we are going to learn about what A/B testing is,...