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Data Science for Marketing Analytics

You're reading from   Data Science for Marketing Analytics Achieve your marketing goals with the data analytics power of Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789959413
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tommy Blanchard Tommy Blanchard
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Debasish Behera Debasish Behera
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Pranshu Bhatnagar Pranshu Bhatnagar
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Data Science for Marketing Analytics
Preface
1. Data Preparation and Cleaning FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Exploration and Visualization 3. Unsupervised Learning: Customer Segmentation 4. Choosing the Best Segmentation Approach 5. Predicting Customer Revenue Using Linear Regression 6. Other Regression Techniques and Tools for Evaluation 7. Supervised Learning: Predicting Customer Churn 8. Fine-Tuning Classification Algorithms 9. Modeling Customer Choice Appendix

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 8.48: Confusion matrix

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

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

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

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

Precision

It is the ability of a classifier to not label a sample that is negative as positive. The precision for an algorithm is calculated using the following formula:

Figure 8.49: Precision

This is useful in the case of email spam detection. In this scenario, we do not want any important emails to be detected as spam.

Recall

It refers to the ability of a classifier to...

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