Marketing Data Science: Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with R and Python

Now , a leader of Northwestern University’s prestigious analytics program presents a fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of marketing applications in predictive analytics. Writing for both managers and students, Thomas W. Miller explains essential concepts, principles, and theory in the context of real-world applications.

Building on Miller’s pioneering program, Marketing Data Science thoroughly addresses segmentation, target marketing, brand and product positioning, new product development, choice modeling, recommender systems, pricing research, retail site selection, demand estimation, sales forecasting, customer retention, and lifetime value analysis.

Starting where Miller’s widely-praised Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics left off, he integrates crucial information and insights that were previously segregated in texts on web analytics, network science, information technology, and programming. Coverage includes:

• The role of analytics in delivering effective messages on the web
• Understanding the web by understanding its hidden structures
• Being recognized on the web – and watching your own competitors
• Visualizing networks and understanding communities within them
• Measuring sentiment and making recommendations
• Leveraging key data science methods: databases/data preparation, classical/Bayesian statistics, regression/classification, machine learning, and text analytics

Six complete case studies address exceptionally relevant issues such as: separating legitimate email from spam; identifying legally-relevant information for lawsuit discovery; gleaning insights from anonymous web surfing data, and more. This text’s extensive set of web and network problems draw on rich public-domain data sources; many are accompanied by solutions in Python and/or R.

Marketing Data Science will be an invaluable resource for all students, faculty, and professional marketers who want to use business analytics to improve marketing performance.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Understanding Markets
Chapter 2 Predicting Consumer Choice
Chapter 3 Targeting Current Customers
Chapter 4 Finding New Customers
Chapter 5 Retaining Customers
Chapter 6 Positioning Products
Chapter 7 Developing New Products
Chapter 8 Promoting Products
Chapter 9 Recommending Products
Chapter 10 Assessing Brands and Prices
Chapter 11 Utilizing Social Networks
Chapter 12 Watching Competitors
Chapter 13 Predicting Sales
Chapter 14 Redefining Marketing Research
Appendix A Data Science Methods
Appendix B Marketing Data Sources
Appendix C Case Studies
Appendix D Code and Utilities