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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)
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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

Key Performance Indicators and Visualizations

When you run marketing campaigns or any other marketing efforts, you would most likely want to know how well each of them performs and understand the weaknesses and strengths of each of your marketing efforts. In this chapter, we are going to discuss commonly used key performance indicators (KPIs) that help you track the performances of your marketing efforts. More specifically, we will cover such KPIs as sales revenue, cost per acquisition (CPA), digital marketing KPIs, and site traffic. We will learn how these KPIs can help you stay on track toward your marketing goals.

After discussing some of the commonly used KPIs, we will then learn how we can use Python and/or R to compute such KPIs and build visualizations of those KPIs. In this chapter, we will use a bank marketing dataset that showcases a real-world case of marketing campaigns...