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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

You're reading from   Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks simplified

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Product type Course
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622219
Length 1159 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krishna Choppella Krishna Choppella
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Uday Kamath Uday Kamath
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Chapter 4. Customer Relationship Prediction with Ensembles

Any type of company offering a service, product, or experience needs a solid understanding of relationship with their customers; therefore, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a key element of modern marketing strategies. One of the biggest challenges that businesses face is the need to understand exactly what causes a customer to buy new products.

In this chapter, we will work on a real-world marketing database provided by the French telecom company, Orange. The task will be to estimate the following likelihoods for customer actions:

  • Switch provider (churn)
  • Buy new products or services (appetency)
  • Buy upgrades or add-ons proposed to them to make the sale more profitable (upselling)

We will tackle the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Cup 2009 challenge (KDD Cup, 2009) and show the steps to process the data using Weka. First, we will parse and load the data and implement the basic baseline models. Later, we will...

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