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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

Introduction

Put yourself in the shoes of the marketing head of an e-commerce company with a base of 1 million transacting customers. You want to make the marketing campaigns more effective, reaching the right customer with the right messaging. You know that by understanding the customer and their needs better, marketing campaigns could provide a significant boost to the business. As you begin solving this problem, you think about the customer experience. An average customer receives several communications from your platform about the latest offers and programs. These are relayed via email, push notifications, and social media campaigns. This may not be a great experience for them, especially if these communications are generic/mass campaigns. If the company understood the customers' needs better and sent them the relevant content, they would shop much more frequently.

Several examples like this show that a deep understanding of customers and their needs is beneficial not only...