Data preparation for building logistic regression models

Logistic regression is a popular model that predicts binary output, e.g., fraud or not, customer response or not, etc. When building a regression model, there are two ways to represent the data. First, it is the transactional format as shown below. Each record is a single transaction and the target variable is a binary variable.
                Data in transactional format
      USER_ID CAT STATE_CD   CAMPAIGN_DATE CAMPAIGN_CD RESPONSE
      1001 A  MA       01-MAY-12 A          N
      1001 A  MA       08-MAY-12 A          N
      1001 A  MA       15-MAY-12 A          Y
      1001 A  MA       22-MAY-12 A          N
      1001 A  MA       29-MAY-12 A          N
      1001 A  MA       06-JUN-12 A          N
      1001 B  CT       06-JUN-12 A          N
      1002 B  CT       01-MAY-12 A          N
      1002 B  CT       08-MAY-12 A          N
      1002 B  CT       15-MAY-12 A          Y
      1002 B  CT       22-MAY-12 A          N
      1002 B  CT       29-MAY-12 A          Y

If all the independent variables are categorical, we can convert the data in transactional format into a more compact one by summarizing the data using SQL script similar to the following. We count the numbers of responses and non responses for each unique combination of  independent variable values. For continuous variables, if we want, we can transform them into categorical using techniques like binning.

select cat, state_cd, campgain_cd, 
sum(case when response='Y' then 1 else 0 end) num_response,
sum(case when response='N' then 1 else 0 end) num_no_response
from tbl_txn group by cat, state_cd, campgain_cd;
                 Data in the summary format
 CAT STATE_CD  CAMPAIGN_CD  NUM_RESPONSE  NUM_NO_RESPONSE
  A  MA       A        125       1025
  B  CT       C        75        2133
  ..........................

Summarizing data first can greatly reduce the data size and save memory space when building the model. This is particularly useful if we are use memory-based modeling tools such as R.

If we use R to build the logistic regression model, the script for training data in transactional format is similar to the following.
glm(formula=RESPONSE~CAT+STATE_CD+CAMPAIGN_CD,
  data=train.set1,family = binomial(link = "logit")) ->model1

The R scripts for building a logistic model based on summary data is show below.

glm(formula= cbind(NUM_RESPONSE,NUM_NO_RESPONSE) ~CAT+STATE_CD+CAMPAIGN_CD,
  data=train.set1,family = binomial(link = "logit")) ->model2