Professor Maurits Kaptein of the Eindenhoven University of Technology, this week introduced a brilliant whitepaper on the uses of persuasion profiling data to tailor marketing messages in ecommerce. The paper includes a detailed analysis of how messages influence consumers and even diagrams algorithms that can be used to create test scenarios. The reference list is a goldmine for veteran data miners and marketers alike.
Read the whitepaper here
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