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英国零售市场客户细分聚类算法探索

An Exploration of Clustering Algorithms for Customer Segmentation in the UK Retail Market

Sheffield Hallam University(谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学);University of Brighton(布莱顿大学)

Jeen Mary John, Olamilekan Shobayo, Bayode Ogunleye

AI总结:

本文利用英国零售数据集,基于RFM框架比较多种聚类算法,发现高斯混合模型在客户细分中表现最佳,轮廓系数达0.80。

摘要:

近年来,人们对在线购物的意识显著提升。这催生了在线零售平台的发展,以及更好地理解客户购买行为的需求。零售公司面临着处理大量客户购买记录的压力,这需要采用复杂的方法来进行更准确、更高效的客户细分。客户细分是一种营销分析工具,有助于以客户为中心的服务,从而提升盈利能力。在本文中,我们旨在开发一个客户细分模型,以改善零售市场行业的决策过程。为实现这一目标,我们使用了从UCI机器学习库获取的英国在线零售数据集。该零售数据集包含541,909条客户记录和八个特征。我们的研究采用了RFM(最近购买时间、购买频率和购买金额)框架来量化客户价值。随后,我们比较了几种最先进的(SOTA)聚类算法,即K-means聚类、高斯混合模型(GMM)、基于密度的带噪声应用空间聚类(DBSCAN)、凝聚聚类以及平衡迭代削减和聚类使用层次结构(BIRCH)。结果表明,GMM优于其他方法,其轮廓系数(Silhouette Score)达到0.80。

英文摘要:

Recently, peoples awareness of online purchases has significantly risen. This has given rise to online retail platforms and the need for a better understanding of customer purchasing behaviour. Retail companies are pressed with the need to deal with a high volume of customer purchases, which requires sophisticated approaches to perform more accurate and efficient customer segmentation. Customer segmentation is a marketing analytical tool that aids customer-centric service and thus enhances profitability. In this paper, we aim to develop a customer segmentation model to improve decision-making processes in the retail market industry. To achieve this, we employed a UK-based online retail dataset obtained from the UCI machine learning repository. The retail dataset consists of 541,909 customer records and eight features. Our study adopted the RFM (recency, frequency, and monetary) framework to quantify customer values. Thereafter, we compared several state-of-the-art (SOTA) clustering algorithms, namely, K-means clustering, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN), agglomerative clustering, and balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies (BIRCH). The results showed the GMM outperformed other approaches, with a Silhouette Score of 0.80.

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