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How Data Mining Is Being Used Today 15 A Supermarket Becomes an Information Broker 15 A Recommendation-Based Business 16 Cross-Selling 17 Holding on to Good Customers 17 Weeding out Bad Customers 18 Revolutionizing an Industry 18 And Just about Anything Else 19 Lessons Learned 19 Chapter 2 The Virtuous Cycle of Data Mining 21 A Case Study in Business Data Mining 22 Identifying the Business Challenge 23 Applying Data Mining 24 Acting on the Results 25 Measuring the Effects 25 What Is the Virtuous Cycle? 26 Identify the Business Opportunity 27 Mining Data 28 Take Action 30 Measuring Results 30 Data Mining in the Context of the Virtuous Cycle 32 A Wireless Communications Company Makes the Right Connections 34 The Opportunity 34 How Data Mining Was Applied 35 Defining the Inputs 37 Derived Inputs 37 The Actions 38 Completing the Cycle 39 Neural Networks and Decision Trees Drive SUV Sales 39 The Initial Challenge 39 How Data Mining Was Applied 40 The Data 40 Down the Mine Shaft 40 The Resulting Actions 41 Completing the Cycle 42 Lessons Learned 42 Chapter 3 Data Mining Methodology and Best Practices 43 Why Have a Methodology? 44 Learning Things That Arent True 44 Patterns May Not Represent Any Underlying Rule 45 The Model Set May Not Reflect the Relevant Population 46 Data May Be at the Wrong Level of Detail 47 Learning Things That Are True, but Not Useful 48 Learning Things That Are Already Known 49 Learning Things That Cant Be Used 49 Hypothesis Testing 50 Generating Hypotheses 51 Testing Hypotheses 51 Models, Profiling, and Prediction 51 Profiling 53 Prediction 54 The Methodology 54 Step One: Translate the Business Problem into a Data Mining Problem 56 What Does a Data Mining Problem Look Like? 56 How Will the Results Be Used? 57 How Will the Results Be Delivered? 58 The Role of Business Users and Information Technology 58 Step Two: Select Appropriate Data 60 What Is Available? 61 How Much Data Is Enough? 62 How Much History Is Required? 63 How Many Variables? 63 What Must the Data Contain? 64 Step Three: Get to Know the Data 64 Examine Distributions 65 Compare Values with Descriptions 66 Validate Assumptions 67 Ask Lots of Questions 67 Step Four: Create a Model Set 68 Assembling Customer Signatures 68 Creating a Balanced Sample 68 Including Multiple Timeframes 70 Creating a Model Set for Prediction 70 Partitioning the Model Set 71 Step Five: Fix Problems with the Data 72 Categorical Variables with Too Many Values 73 Numeric Variables with Skewed Distributions and Outliers 73 Missing Values 73 Values with Meanings That Change over Time 74 Inconsistent Data Encoding 74 Step Six: Transform Data to Bring Information to the Surface 74 Capture Trends 75 Create Ratios and Other Combinations of Variables 75 Convert Counts to Proportions 75 Step Seven: Build Models 77 Step Eight: Assess Models 78 Assessing Descriptive Models 78 Assessing Directed Models 78 Assessing Classifiers and Predictors 79 Assessing Estimators 79 Comparing Models Using Lift 81 Problems with Lift 83 Step Nine: Deploy Models 84 Step Ten: Assess Results 85 Step Eleven: Begin Again 85 Lessons Learned 86 Chapter 4 Data Mining Applications in Marketing and Customer Relationship Management 87 Prospecting 87 Identifying Good Prospects 88 Choosing a Communication Channel 89 Picking Appropriate Messages 89 Data Mining to Choose the Right Place to Advertise 90 Who Fits the Profile? 90 Measuring Fitness for Groups of Readers 93 Data Mining to Improve Direct Marketing Campaigns 95 Response Modeling 96 Optimizing Response for a Fixed Budget 97 Optimizing Campaign Profitability 100 How the Model Affects Profitability 103 Reaching the People Most Influenced by the Message 106 Differential Response Analysis 107 Using Current Customers to Learn About Prospects 108 Start Tracking Customers before They Become Customers 109 Gather Information from New Customers 109 Acquisition-Time Variables Can Predict Future Outcomes 110 Data Mining for Customer Relationship Management 110 Matching Campaigns to Customers 110 Segmenting the Customer Base 111 Finding Behavioral Segments 111 Tying Market Research Segments to Behavioral Data 113 Reducing Exposure to Credit Risk 113 Predicting Who Will Default 113 Improving Collections 114 Determining Customer Value 114 Cross-selling, Up-selling, and Making Recommendations 115 Finding the Right Time for an Offer 115 Making Recommendations 116 Retention and Churn 116 Recognizing Churn 116 Why Churn Matters 117 Different Kinds of Churn 118 1 2 3 [ 4 ] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 |