Business Analytics
eBook - ePub

Business Analytics

Solving Business Problems With R

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eBook - ePub

Business Analytics

Solving Business Problems With R

About this book

Businesses typically encounter problems first and then seek out analytical methods to help in decision making. Business Analytics: Solving Business Problems with R by Arul Mishra and Himanshu Mishra offers practical, data-driven solutions for today?s dynamic business environment. This text helps students see the real-world potential of analytical methods to help meet their business challenges by demonstrating the application of crucial methods. These methods are cutting edge, including neural nets, natural language processing, and boosted decision trees. Applications throughout the book, including pricing models, social sentiment analysis, and branding show students how to use these analytical methods in real business settings, including Frito-Lay, Netflix, and Zappos. Step-by-step R code with commentary gives readers the tools to adapt each method to their business settings. The book offers comprehensive coverage across diverse business domains, including finance, marketing, human resources, operations, and accounting. Finally, an entire chapter explores equity and fairness in analytical methods, as well as the techniques that can be used to mitigate biases and enhance equity in the results.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Brief Contents
  7. Detailed Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About the Authors
  11. Getting Started with R and RStudio
  12. Part I Business Environment Analytics
  13. 1 The External Environment of a Business
  14. 2 Monitoring the Macroeconomic Environment
  15. 3 Monitoring the Competitive Environment Using Principal Component Analysis
  16. 4 Monitoring the Social Environment Using Text Analysis
  17. Part II Marketing Analytics
  18. 5 Market Segmentation Using Clustering Algorithms
  19. 6 Predicting Prices With Neural Nets
  20. 7 Advertising and Branding With A/B Testing
  21. 8 Using Neural Nets for Customer Analytics
  22. Part III Financial and Accounting Analytics
  23. 9 Loan Charge-Off Prediction Using an Explainable Model
  24. 10 Forecasting the Financial Health of a Business Using Penalized Regression
  25. 11 Forensic Accounting Using Outlier Detection Algorithms
  26. Part IV Operations and Supply Chain Analytics
  27. 12 Managing Decision Uncertainty Using Random Forests
  28. 13 Predicting Employee Satisfaction Using Boosted Decision Trees
  29. 14 New Product Development With A/B Testing
  30. Part V Business Ethics and Analytics
  31. 15 Fairness in Business Analytics
  32. Technical Appendix
  33. Index