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Data Science for Marketing Analytics - Second Edition

By : Mirza Rahim Baig, Gururajan Govindan, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali
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Data Science for Marketing Analytics - Second Edition

By: Mirza Rahim Baig, Gururajan Govindan, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali

Overview of this book

Unleash the power of data to reach your marketing goals with this practical guide to data science for business. This book will help you get started on your journey to becoming a master of marketing analytics with Python. You'll work with relevant datasets and build your practical skills by tackling engaging exercises and activities that simulate real-world market analysis projects. You'll learn to think like a data scientist, build your problem-solving skills, and discover how to look at data in new ways to deliver business insights and make intelligent data-driven decisions. As well as learning how to clean, explore, and visualize data, you'll implement machine learning algorithms and build models to make predictions. As you work through the book, you'll use Python tools to analyze sales, visualize advertising data, predict revenue, address customer churn, and implement customer segmentation to understand behavior. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to implement data science and machine learning techniques to better understand your marketing data and improve your decision-making.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface

pandas

pandas is a software library written in Python and is the basic building block for data manipulation and analysis. It offers a collection of high-performance, easy-to-use, and intuitive data structures and analysis tools that are of great use to marketing analysts and data scientists alike. The library comes as a default package when you install Anaconda (refer to the Preface for detailed instructions).

Note

Before you run the code in this book, it is recommended that you install and set up the virtual environment using the environment.yml file we have provided in the GitHub repository of this book.

You can find the environment.yml file at the following link: https://packt.link/dBv1k.

It will install all the required libraries and ensure that the version numbers of the libraries on your system match with ours. Refer to the Preface for more instructions on how to set this up.

However, if you're using any other distribution where pandas is not pre-installed, you...