Simple Customer Segmentation Using RFM Analysis

Chi Nguyen
Towards Data Science
5 min readMar 2, 2021

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What is RFM analysis?

RFM analysis is a customer behavior segmentation technique. Based on customers’ historical transactions, RFM analysis focuses on 3 main aspects of customers’ transactions: recency, frequency and purchase amount. Understanding these behaviors will allow businesses to cluster different customers into groups.

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