Marketing data often requires categorization or labeling. In today’s age, marketing data can also be very big, or larger than what humans can reasonably tackle. In this course, students learn how to use supervised deep learning to train algorithms to tackle text classification tasks. Students walk through a conceptual overview of supervised machine learning and dive into real-world datasets through instructor-led tutorials in Python. The course concludes with a major project.
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About this Course
Basic proficiency in Python including basic Python logic and data structures, Python’s built-in functions, and Python package pandas
What you will learn
Describe text classification and related terminology (e.g., supervised machine learning)
Apply text classification to marketing data through a peer-graded project
Apply text classification to a variety of popular marketing use cases via structured homeworks
Train, evaluate and improve the performance of the text classification models you create for your final project
Skills you will gain
- Assess Marketing Problems
- Supervised Learning Process
- Supervised Learning
- Classification Models
- Supervised Learning Outcomes
Basic proficiency in Python including basic Python logic and data structures, Python’s built-in functions, and Python package pandas
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The Supervised Machine Learning Workflow
In this module, we will learn about the different types of machine learning that exist and the operational steps of building a supervised machine learning model. We will also cover performance metrics of text classification.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
In this module, we will learn about neural networks and supervised machine learning. Then we will dive into real supervised machine learning projects and the key decisions that need to be made when conducting one's own project.
Getting Started with Google Colab and Deep Learning
In this module, we will learn how to work in the Google Colab and Google Drive environment. We will get started with supervised learning by using a wrapper for Google’s Tensorflow and transformer models.
Linear Models and Classification Metrics
In this module, we will learn how to workshop a variety of supervised machine learning models that rely on linear-based models. We will also learn how to perform an external performance analysis of models in sci-kit learn.
About the Text Marketing Analytics Specialization
Marketing data are complex and have dimensions that make analysis difficult. Large unstructured datasets are often too big to extract qualitative insights. Marketing datasets also often involve relational and connected and involve networks. This specialization tackles advanced advertising and marketing analytics through three advanced methods aimed at solving these problems: text classification, text topic modeling, and semantic network analysis. Each key area involves a deep dive into the leading computer science methods aimed at solving these methods using Python. This specialization can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The MS-DS is an interdisciplinary degree that brings together faculty from CU Boulder’s departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, and others. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the MS-DS is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience in computer science, information science, mathematics, and statistics. Learn more about the MS-DS program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-science-boulder.

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