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Data Science for Marketing Analytics

You're reading from   Data Science for Marketing Analytics A practical guide to forming a killer marketing strategy through data analysis with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560475
Length 636 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali
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Mirza Rahim Baig Mirza Rahim Baig
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Mirza Rahim Baig
Gururajan Govindan Gururajan Govindan
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Gururajan Govindan
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Data Preparation and Cleaning 2. Data Exploration and Visualization FREE CHAPTER 3. Unsupervised Learning and Customer Segmentation 4. Evaluating and Choosing the Best Segmentation Approach 5. Predicting Customer Revenue Using Linear Regression 6. More Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Regression Models 7. Supervised Learning: Predicting Customer Churn 8. Fine-Tuning Classification Algorithms 9. Multiclass Classification Algorithms Appendix

Introduction

You are working in a marketing company that takes projects from various clients. Your team has been given a project where you have to predict the percentage of conversions for a Black Friday sale that the team is going to plan. The percentage of conversion as per the client refers to the number of people who actually buy products vis-à-vis the number of people who initially signed up for updates regarding the sale by visiting the website. Your first instinct is to go for a regression model for predicting the percentage conversion. However, you have millions of rows of data with hundreds of columns. In scenarios like these, it's very common to encounter issues of multi-collinearity where two or more features effectively convey the same information. This can then end up affecting the robustness of the model. This is where solutions such as Recursive Feature Selection (RFE) can be of help.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to prepare data for regression...

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