Introduces business and
technical managers to the exciting new frontier in database technology
Web sites gather a lot of detailed information about customers. Unfortunately, most
companies lack the means to use that information to improve their marketing and customer
support functions. Considered by most experts to be the new frontier in the database and
data warehousing fields, Web mining solves that problem. Coauthored by two bestselling
data mining authors, Mining the Web explains, for corporate decision makers, IT managers,
and database marketers, how data mining principles and techniques can be applied to
various types of Web sites. More importantly, they describe techniques for using the
resulting goldmine of business data to develop more effective advertising campaigns and
better customer service.
Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
1. Nothing New under the
Sun?
2. Approaches to Mining the
Web.
3. Online Retailing: Selling
Things That Get Delivered in a Truck.
4. Digital Content: Selling
Things That Get Delivered through the Ether.
5. Selling Eyes to
Advertisers.
6. Marketplaces: Connecting
Sellers and Buyers.
7. How Much Are Your
Customers Worth?
8. Knowing When to Worry:
Hazard Functions and Survival Analysis in Marketing.
9. Cohort Analysis: Using
Cohorts to Track Customers.
10. Using Marketing Tests to
Understand Customers.
11. Live (and Test) and
Learn.
Index.
348 pages