Data Science for Marketing Analytics
Course Description Overview
Data Science for Marketing Analytics covers every stage of data analytics, from working with a raw dataset to segmenting a population and modeling different parts of the population based on the segments.
The course starts by teaching you how to use Python libraries, such as pandas and Matplotlib, to read data from Python, manipulate it, and create plots, using both categorical and continuous variables. Then, you'll learn how to segment a population into groups and use different clustering techniques to evaluate customer segmentation. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll explore ways to evaluate and select the best segmentation approach, and go on to create a linear regression model on customer value data to predict lifetime value. In the concluding chapters, you'll gain an understanding of regression techniques and tools for evaluating regression models, and explore ways to predict customer choice using classification algorithms. Finally, you'll apply these techniques to create a churn model for modeling customer product choices.
By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own marketing reporting and interactive dashboard solutions.
You'll also need the following software installed in advance:
- Any of the following operating systems: Windows 7 SP1 32/64-bit, Windows 8.1 32/64-bit, or Windows 10 32/64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04 or later, or macOS Sierra or later.
- Browser: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
- Conda
- Python 3.x
For an optimal student experience, we recommend the following hardware configuration:
- Processor: Dual Core or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 10 GB available space
Lesson One: Data Preparation and Cleaning
- Data Models and Structured Data
- pandas
- Data Manipulation
Lesson Two: Data Exploration and Visualization
- Identifying the Right Attributes
- Generating Targeted Insights
- Visualizing Data
Lesson Three: Unsupervised Learning: Customer Segmentation
- Customer Segmentation Methods
- Similarity and Data Standardization
- k-means Clustering
Lesson Four: Choosing the Best Segmentation Approach
- Choosing the Number of Clusters
- Different Methods of Clustering
- Evaluating Clustering
Lesson Five: Predicting Customer Revenue Using Linear Regression
- Understanding Regression
- Feature Engineering for Regression
- Performing and Interpreting Linear Regression
Lesson Six: Other Regression Techniques and Tools for Evaluation
- Evaluating the Accuracy of a Regression Model
- Using Regularization for Feature Selection
- Tree-Based Regression Models
Lesson Seven: Supervised Learning: Predicting Customer Churn
- Classification Problems
- Understanding Logistic Regression
- Creating a Data Science Pipeline
Lesson Eight: Fine-Tuning Classification Algorithms
- Support Vector Machine
- Decision Trees
- Random Forest
- Preprocessing Data for Machine Learning Models
- Model Evaluation
- Performance Metrics
Lesson Nine: Modeling Customer Choice
- Understanding Multiclass Classification
- Class Imbalanced Data