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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

4. Evaluating and Choosing the Best Segmentation Approach

Overview

In this chapter, you will continue your journey with customer segmentation. You will improve your approach to customer segmentation by learning and implementing newer techniques for clustering and cluster evaluation. You will learn a principled way of choosing the optimal number of clusters so that you can keep the customer segments statistically robust and actionable for businesses. You will apply evaluation approaches to multiple business problems. You will also learn to apply some other popular approaches to clustering such as mean-shift, k-modes, and k-prototypes. Adding these to your arsenal of segmentation techniques will further sharpen your skills as a data scientist in marketing and help you come up with solutions that will create a big business impact.