Segment

How it is used

You analyse, compare or target a segment, or break results down by segment. Analysts often segment results to check whether an average hides different behaviour in different groups. The process is called segmentation.

Example sentences

1. The new pricing works well for small businesses but not for the enterprise segment.

2. Let's segment the results by device; mobile users might behave differently.

Common collocations

• customer segment
• segment the data
• break down by segment
• high-value segment

Related terms

• cohortA group of users who share a starting point or experience in the same period, such as everyone who signed up in January, and who are followed over time.
• filterTo keep only the rows of data that meet certain conditions, such as orders from 2024 or users in Turkey, and leave out the rest.
• drill downTo move from a summary view to more detailed data, for example from yearly sales to monthly sales and then to single stores, in order to find the cause of a pattern.
• clusteringAn unsupervised task that groups similar items together without predefined labels, for example sorting customers into segments by how they shop.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• segment · Data Science & Analytics

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting