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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

Chapter 6. Other Regression Techniques and Tools for Evaluation

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Calculate mean absolute error and root mean squared error, which are common measures of the accuracy of a regression model

  • Use evaluation metrics or lasso regression to perform feature selection for linear models

  • Use tree-based regression models (regression trees and random forest regression)

  • Compare the accuracy of different regression models

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This chapter covers other regression techniques such as lasso regression, and explains how to evaluate various regression models using common measures of accuracy.