University of Colorado Boulder
Unsupervised Text Classification for Marketing Analytics

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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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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 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

5 assignments

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

3 videos5 readings2 assignments1 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

1 reading1 programming assignment

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 readings1 peer review

Network analysis was created as a science to study the relationships that people have with each other. This module will focus on on social networks, or relational networks of people, things, and so on.

What's included

4 videos2 readings2 assignments

In this module we'll go further into network analysis and study the relationships that words have with each other. Semantic networks can tell is more about the context in which people are using words in collections of documents, and in this module we'll learn how to turn this method into marketing insights.

What's included

2 readings1 assignment2 programming assignments

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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

 

Instructors

Chris J. Vargo
University of Colorado Boulder
7 Courses74,728 learners
Scott Bradley
University of Colorado Boulder
3 Courses2,850 learners

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