Here you will learn how to set up Python 3 and load up Jupyter. We’ll also show you what the Anaconda Prompt is and how you can use it to download and import new modules.

We will begin with customer analytics, which is a major part of the course. We will perform some initial exploration of our segmentation data set. Using Python, we’ll visualize our data and standardize it to aid in future analysis.

Here, we discuss the theory behind hierarchical and flat clustering. Throughout the course we’ll implement both approaches. In this section, we’ll focus on hierarchical clustering and use it to determine the number of clusters in our data set.

We continue with segmentation, this time focusing on a flat clustering technique, namely K-means. We’ll divide our customers into clusters using K-means and determine the customer segments. This is a crucial part of the customer analysis, as it is where we discover the most important characteristics, which define our customer groups.

In our final section of customer analytics, we’ll introduce a dimensionality reduction algorithm: Principal Components Analysis (PCA). We’ll combine K-means and PCA to obtain even better clustering results and gain insight about our customers. In addition, we’ll perform the model deployment, which we’ll need in the following sections of our course

It’s time for purchase analytics. This is the second major part of the course. We’ll examine our purchase data set and see similarities and differences with the segmentation data. We’ll analyze and preprocess our data and ultimately segment the purchase customers into groups.

We’ll analyze our customers by filtering our data by brand and segment, and we’ll visualize the findings. In addition, we’ll compute the revenues by brand and total revenues for each segment. Through the descriptive analysis, we will form our hypotheses about our segments, thus ultimately setting the ground for subsequent modeling.

We’re ready to create our first prediction model. We’ll use logistic regression and model purchase probability of our clients. We’ll compute the price elasticity of purchase probability and use it to gain insight into our average customers, as well as each of our customer segments. Furthermore, we’ll explore the effects of promotion on our clients’ purchase behavior.

Our goal is to understand the brand preferences of our clients. We’ll imagine we work for one of the brands and create marketing strategies for targeting customers to attract them to our own brand. We’ll compute price elasticity of brand choice for our brand, as well as calculate cross price elasticities for a competitor brand to try to stay ahead of the competition.

We conclude the purchase analytics part of the course with a model for purchase quantity. Here, we’ll use linear regression to determine how many units of our product the customer likes to buy. We’ll examine the effects of promotion on purchase quantity and determine price elasticity of demand.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are at the forefront of the data science revolution. We will take advantage of the TensorFlow 2.0 framework to create a feedforward neural network. This is the part where we will build a black-box model, essentially helping us reach 90%+ accuracy in our predictions about the future behavior of our customers.