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    <title>topic Understanding Your Customers is Key to Success - Strategy Matters as well! in SAS Data Science</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Ever need to have better marketing to your customer base? &amp;nbsp;Or perhaps your organization needs to get better at customer personalization in your offers and messaging. &amp;nbsp;If these topics resonate with you then you should seriously check out my newest book Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, 3rd ed. &amp;nbsp;&lt;A title="Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, 3rd Ed." href="https://www.sas.com/store/prodBK_69071_en.html" target="_self"&gt;Customer Segmentation &amp;amp; Clustering 3rd Ed.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; In this edition you'll find how segmentation is one of the first and most basic machine learning methods. &amp;nbsp;It can be used by companies to understand their customer better, boost relevance of their markeing messaging and offers, and increase effecacy of predictive models. &amp;nbsp;New to this 3rd edition is a chapter that focuses on predictive models within microsegments and combined segments using SAS Factory Miner. &amp;nbsp;The chapter on "Combining Attitudinal and Behavorial Segments: Ensemble Segmentation" has been expanded as this is a SAS patented application. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In Strategic Analtyics and SAS, Using Aggregate Data to Drive Organizational Initiatives, &lt;A title="Strategic Analytics and SAS" href="https://www.sas.com/store/books/categories/examples/strategic-analytics-and-sas-using-aggregate-data-to-drive-organizational-initiatives/prodBK_67895_en.html?storeCode=SAS_US" target="_self"&gt;Strategic Analytics and SAS&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;you'll learn how to take your predictive models to a whole new level using econometric methods to answer really big picture questions that your organization is clamoring to answer. &amp;nbsp;Using examples from real world data, this book give you glimpses on the how-to for becoming more strategic with your analytics even using the predictive model outputs of your existing tactical analytical models!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So, take a peek at these two new resources for your organization and happy analyzing. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Randy Collica&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>RandyCollica</dc:creator>
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      <title>Understanding Your Customers is Key to Success - Strategy Matters as well!</title>
      <link>https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Understanding-Your-Customers-is-Key-to-Success-Strategy-Matters/m-p/350508#M5214</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Ever need to have better marketing to your customer base? &amp;nbsp;Or perhaps your organization needs to get better at customer personalization in your offers and messaging. &amp;nbsp;If these topics resonate with you then you should seriously check out my newest book Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, 3rd ed. &amp;nbsp;&lt;A title="Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, 3rd Ed." href="https://www.sas.com/store/prodBK_69071_en.html" target="_self"&gt;Customer Segmentation &amp;amp; Clustering 3rd Ed.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; In this edition you'll find how segmentation is one of the first and most basic machine learning methods. &amp;nbsp;It can be used by companies to understand their customer better, boost relevance of their markeing messaging and offers, and increase effecacy of predictive models. &amp;nbsp;New to this 3rd edition is a chapter that focuses on predictive models within microsegments and combined segments using SAS Factory Miner. &amp;nbsp;The chapter on "Combining Attitudinal and Behavorial Segments: Ensemble Segmentation" has been expanded as this is a SAS patented application. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In Strategic Analtyics and SAS, Using Aggregate Data to Drive Organizational Initiatives, &lt;A title="Strategic Analytics and SAS" href="https://www.sas.com/store/books/categories/examples/strategic-analytics-and-sas-using-aggregate-data-to-drive-organizational-initiatives/prodBK_67895_en.html?storeCode=SAS_US" target="_self"&gt;Strategic Analytics and SAS&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;you'll learn how to take your predictive models to a whole new level using econometric methods to answer really big picture questions that your organization is clamoring to answer. &amp;nbsp;Using examples from real world data, this book give you glimpses on the how-to for becoming more strategic with your analytics even using the predictive model outputs of your existing tactical analytical models!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So, take a peek at these two new resources for your organization and happy analyzing. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Randy Collica&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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