University of Colorado Boulder
Unsupervised Text Classification for Marketing Analytics
University of Colorado Boulder

Unsupervised Text Classification for Marketing Analytics

Chris J. Vargo
Scott Bradley

Instructors: Chris J. Vargo

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

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13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Describe the concept of topic modeling and related terminology (e.g., unsupervised machine learning)

  • Apply topic modeling to marketing data via a peer-graded project

  • Apply topic modeling to a variety of popular marketing use cases via homework assignments

  • Evaluate, tune and improve the performance the topic model you create for your project

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Assessments

2 quizzes

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Text Marketing Analytics Specialization
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There are 5 modules in this course

In this module, we will cover the fundamental concepts of topic modeling, also known as unsupervised machine learning on unstructured text documents. We will contrast unsupervised methods to supervised ones and survey common applications of topic modeling.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 programming assignment1 discussion prompt

In this module, we will go under the hood inside a topic modeling approach and understand what assumptions drive topic model fit. We will also uncover how bag-of-words approaches to topic modeling work, and the natural language processing required to produce meaningful topic modeling features.

What's included

2 videos1 reading1 quiz1 programming assignment

In this module, we will cover how to parse through JSON-like data and segment it to create a corpus that is ready for the topic modeling process. We will cover how the data for your project is structured and its taxonomy.

What's included

2 videos2 readings1 quiz

In this module, we will take Amazon review data and load it into a corpus to preprocess it. We will cover how to build topic models from the data and also save those topic models.

What's included

2 videos2 readings1 peer review

In this module, we will learn how to evaluate the fit of topic models and use the best topic model to classify documents. We will also cover how to build topic models with pre-trained neural networks.

What's included

3 videos3 readings1 peer review

Instructors

Chris J. Vargo
University of Colorado Boulder
7 Courses69,013 learners
Scott Bradley
University of Colorado Boulder
3 Courses2,477 learners

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This course is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Colorado Boulder. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

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