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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

Performance Metrics

In the case of classification algorithms, we use a confusion matrix, which gives us the performance of the learning algorithm. It is a square matrix that counts the number of True Positive (TP), True Negative (TN), False Positive (FP), and False Negative (FN) outcomes:

Figure 8.45: Confusion matrix

For the sake of simplicity, let's use 1 as the positive class and 0 as a negative class, then:

TP: The number of cases that were observed and predicted as 1.

FN: The number of cases that were observed as 1 but predicted as 0.

FP: The number of cases that were observed as 0 but predicted as 1.

TN: The number of cases that were observed as 0 and predicted as 0.

Consider the same case study of predicting whether a product will be returned or not. In that case, the preceding metrics can be understood using the following table:

Figure 8.46: Understanding the metrics

Precision

Precision is the ability of a classifier to not label a sample that is...