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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
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Section 4: Personalized Marketing
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Section 5: Better Decision Making

Drivers behind Marketing Engagement

When you run marketing campaigns, one of the important measures that you will want to look at and analyze is customer engagement with your marketing efforts. For example, in email marketing, customer engagement can be measured by how many of your marketing emails were opened or ignored by your customers. Customer engagement can also be measured by the amount of website visits from individual customers. Successful marketing campaigns will draw a lot of engagement from your customers, while ineffective marketing campaigns will not only drive a lower amount of engagement from your customers, but will also negatively impact your business. Customers might mark emails from your business as spam or unsubscribe from your mailing list.

In order to understand what affects customer engagement, in this chapter, we will discuss how we can use explanatory...