Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Pearson FT Press (Verlag)
978-0-13-388601-6 (ISBN)
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Strategy and management
Methods and models
Technology and code
This up-to-the-minute reference thoroughly covers all three categories.
Now fully updated, this uniquely accessible book will help you use predictive analytics to solve real business problems and drive real competitive advantage. If you’re new to the discipline, it will give you the strong foundation you need to get accurate, actionable results. If you’re already a modeler, programmer, or manager, it will teach you crucial skills you don’t yet have.
Unlike competitive books, this guide illuminates the discipline through realistic vignettes and intuitive data visualizations–not complex math. Thomas W. Miller, leader of Northwestern University’s pioneering program in predictive analytics, guides you through defining problems, identifying data, crafting and optimizing models, writing effective R code, interpreting results, and more.
Every chapter focuses on one of today’s key applications for predictive analytics, delivering skills and knowledge to put models to work–and maximize their value.
Reflecting extensive student and instructor feedback, this edition adds five classroom-tested case studies, updates all code for new versions of R, explains code behavior more clearly and completely, and covers modern data science methods even more effectively.
All data sets, extensive R code, and additional examples available for download at http://www.ftpress.com/miller
If you want to make the most of predictive analytics, data science, and big data, this is the book for you. Thomas W. Miller’s unique balanced approach combines business context and quantitative tools, appealing to managers, analysts, programmers, and students alike.
Miller addresses multiple business cases and challenges, including segmentation, brand positioning, product choice modeling, pricing research, finance, sports, text analytics, sentiment analysis, and social network analysis. He illuminates the use of cross-sectional data, time series, spatial, and spatio-temporal data.
You’ll learn why each problem matters, what data are relevant, and how to explore the data you’ve identified. Miller guides you through conceptually modeling each data set with words and figures; and then modeling it again with realistic R programs that deliver actionable insights.
You’ll walk through model construction, explanatory variable subset selection, and validation, mastering best practices for improving out-of-sample predictive performance. Throughout, Miller employs data visualization and statistical graphics to help you explore data, present models, and evaluate performance.
This edition adds five new case studies, updates all code for the newest versions of R, adds more commenting to clarify how the code works, and offers a more detailed and up-to-date primer on data science methods.
Gain powerful, actionable, profitable insights about:
Advertising and promotion
Consumer preference and choice
Market baskets and related purchases
Economic forecasting
Operations management
Unstructured text and language
Customer sentiment
Brand and price
Sports team performance
And much more
THOMAS W. MILLER is faculty director of the Predictive Analytics program at Northwestern University. He has designed courses for the program, including Marketing Analytics, Advanced Modeling Techniques, Data Visualization, Web and Network Data Science, and the capstone course. He has taught extensively in the program and works with more than forty other faculty members in delivering training in predictive analytics and data science. Miller is co-founder and director of product development at ToutBay, a publisher and distributor of data science applications. He has consulted widely in the areas of retail site selection, product positioning, segmentation, and pricing in competitive markets, and has worked with predictive models for over 30 years. Miller’s books include Data and Text Mining: A Business Applications Approach, Research and Information Services: An Integrated Approach for Business, and a book about predictive modeling in sports, Without a Tout: How to Pick a Winning Team. Before entering academia, Miller spent nearly 15 years in business IT in the computer and transportation industries. He also directed the A. C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research and taught market research and business strategy at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology (psychometrics) and a master’s degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA and master’s degree in economics from the University of Oregon.
Preface v
1 Analytics and Data Science 1
2 Advertising and Promotion 14
3 Preference and Choice 29
4 Market Basket Analysis 37
5 Economic Data Analysis 53
6 Operations Management 67
7 Text Analytics 83
8 Sentiment Analysis 107
9 Sports Analytics 143
10 Spatial Data Analysis 167
11 Brand and Price 187
12 The Big Little Data Game 221
A Data Science Methods 225
A.1 Databases and Data Preparation 227
A.2 Classical and Bayesian Statistics 229
A.3 Regression and Classification 232
A.4 Machine Learning 237
A.5 Web and Social Network Analysis 239
A.6 Recommender Systems 241
A.7 Product Positioning 243
A.8 Market Segmentation 245
A.9 Site Selection 247
A.10 Financial Data Science 248
B Measurement 249
C Case Studies 263
C.1 Return of the Bobbleheads 263
C.2 DriveTime Sedans 264
C.3 Two Month’s Salary 269
C.4 Wisconsin Dells 273
C.5 Computer Choice Study 278
D Code and Utilities 283
Bibliography 321
Index 355
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.11.2014 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 186 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 810 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-13-388601-8 / 0133886018 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-13-388601-6 / 9780133886016 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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