Network Analysis

For Customer Community Detection

Difficulty: Intermediate

Matt Dancho & David Curry

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● Demo’s
(30 min)

● Pro-Tips
(15 mins)
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Agenda
● Business Case Study ● 30-Min Demo
○ Customer History ○ Bank Customers
○ Account History
○ EDA
○ Network Analysis
● Network Analysis ○ Machine Learning
○ 2 Types
○ Key Concepts

● Pro-Tips:
○ Tactics to Explain
● R Packages Why Customers
○ tidygraph belong to
○ ggraph Communities
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Customer Churn Survival Analysis
Customer Communities
Business Case
 Customers Naturally Form
Communities

Can Be Profitable to
Detect Communities
Customer Communities are Natural
Phenomenon

Detection is really important:

1. Avoid Trap of Focusing on

EVERYONE
2. Customize Products & Services for
Key Groups
 Customer History
Descriptive Features
Customers
Network Analysis Basics
80/20 Concepts
Types of Network Analysis

1 2
Undirected Directed

Strength of Relationship Hierarchical Structure

Clustering Composition of
Groups
Types of Network Analysis

1 2
Undirected Directed

Strength of Relationship Hierarchical Structure

Clustering Composition of
Groups
Core Concepts
80/20
Adjacency Matrix

Key Concept
N x N matrix of Relationship
Strength (Measure)
Nodes & Edges

Nodes

● Customers

Edges

● Relationship Strength

Clusters (Groups)

● Densely Connected Web

Key Concept

Groups (Clusters) have

more edges connecting
more nodes at a given
relationship threshold.
Pruning & Threshold

Threshold = 0.9999 Threshold = 0.99

Pruning Too High Too Low
● Filtering to reduce to the
most “influential” nodes

● We use a threshold to
find an optimal
visualization that explains
the groups
Threshold = 0.996
Just Right!

Key Concept

Data mining is subjective.

Where do we cut off?
Network Analysis
Software
 tidygraph

Tidy Network Data

● Combines Node and Edge Data inside

1 tidygraph object

● Makes it super easy to work with

network data

● Can activate() inner node and edge tbls

to manipulate them

● Can apply special network analysis

functions like group_components() &
centrality_degree()

https://github.com/thomasp85/tidygraph
 ggraph

Visualization Package for

tidygraph data

https://ggraph.data-imaginist.com/
Customer Segmentation Workflow
Step-By-Step

Start Finish
1 2 3

Data Clean & Adjacency Matrix, H2O & LIME

Transform tidygraph, & ggraph Predict & Explain

Exploratory Data Analysis Visualizations Customer Segments

Develop Segments
30-Min Demo
Analyze Customer Networks
 Secret Tactics for

Network Analysis
Use these tips to
increase your customer segmentation explainability
Pro Tip
Use H2O & LIME to EXPLAIN WHY
Data Science Transformation
Skills that are needed to do what we just did
Customer Segmentation Workflow
Step-By-Step

Start Finish
1 2 3

Data Clean & Adjacency Matrix, H2O & LIME

Transform tidygraph, & ggraph Predict & Explain

Exploratory Data Analysis Visualizations Customer Segments

Develop Segments
101 & 201 Lab 19
Data Cleaning
201
dplyr, ggplot2

101 & 201

Adjacency Matrix, tidygraph, & ggraph

Lab 19
ggplot2 & purrr

201
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