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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

Consider a scenario where you are the machine learning lead in a marketing analytics firm. Your firm has taken over a project from Amazon to predict whether or not a user will buy a product during festive season sale campaigns. You have been provided with anonymized data about customer activity on the Amazon website – the number of products purchased, their prices, categories of the products, and more. In such scenarios, where the target variable is a discrete value – for example, the customer will either buy the product or not – the problems are referred to as classification problems. There are a large number of classification algorithms available now to solve such problems and choosing the right one is a crucial task. So, you will first start exploring the dataset to come up with some observations about it. Next, you will try out different classification algorithms and evaluate the performance metrics for each classification model to understand whether...