This is a fun part of the course where you learn how to add value to the business by providing ROI-Driven Data Science!
Week 8 will teach you how to calculate a simple policy change – Implementing a No Overtime Policy. You will calculate the expected savings compared to the current policy of allowing overtime.
Next, develop a more sophisticated policy change – Implementing a Targeted Overtime Policy – wherein you target high-flight risk employees.
We’ll teach you everything you need to know about the Expected Value Framework so you can begin to implement this for ANY BINARY CLASSIFICATION MODEL. This includes Customer Churn, Targeted Advertisements, and more!
Here is a recap of our trajectory and the course overview:
Recap: Data Science With R Course Series
You’re in the Week 8: Link Data Science To Business With Expected Value. Here’s our game-plan over the 10 articles in this series. We’ll cover how to apply data science for business with R following our systematic process.
Week 8: Link Data Science To Business With Expected Value
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Week 8: Link Data Science To Business With Expected Value
Overview & Setup
This overview will teach you how to quantify the business return on investment (ROI) using the Expected Value Framework.
The Expected Value Framework is way to apply an expected value to a classification model – it connects a machine learning classification model to ROI for the business.
Learn how to combine:
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The threshold,
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Knowledge of costs and benefits, and
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The confusion matrix converted to expected error rates to account for the presence of false positives and false negatives.
We can use this combination to calculate the business savings for implementing policy as a results of your data science work.
Calculating Expected ROI: No Overtime Policy Over the past few weeks you have created a machine learning model to predict which employees are likely to leave. Through your analysis, you determined the number one cause of employee turnover is working overtime hours.
In this module, you will create a baseline calculation to determine how much the business will save if they completely remove overtime for all employees.
Targeting By Threshold Primer Targeting by threshold will allow you to target employees above a certain level of turnover risk to pinpoint those who are most likely to leave.
Use the calculation to determine the expected value to find the optimal threshold that will maximize business savings for implementing the policy.
Calculating Expected ROI: Targeted Overtime Policy Using the threshold from the previous module, learn how to apply the expected value to employees above a certain probability to leave.
You will also compare the targeted overtime policy to the previous no overtime policy to calculate the cost difference between each policy.
This will enable you to clearly communicate the savings for implementing overtime policy.
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Next Up
The next article in the Data Science With R Series covers Expected Value Optimization And Sensitivity Analysis.
This is a really fun series of chapters that teach you the skills to align your data science work with business ROI.
This week’s targeted analysis leads into Week 9, where you will perform two advanced analyses that are critical in the course:
Threshold Optimization – A method used to maximize expected saving via iteratively calculating savings at various thresholds
Sensitivity Analysis – A method used to investigate how sensitive the expected savings is to various parameter values that were created based on assumptions
Week 9: Expected Value Optimization And Sensitivity Analysis
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