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Dataset Card for Telco Customer Churn

This dataset contains information about customers of a fictional telecommunications company, including demographic information, services subscribed to, location details, and churn behavior. This merged dataset combines the information from the original Telco Customer Churn dataset with additional details.

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  Dataset Description

This merged Telco Customer Churn dataset provides a comprehensive view of customer… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aai510-group1/telco-customer-churn.

1) Data Introduction • The Telco Customer Churn Dataset includes carrier customer service usage, account information, demographics and churn, which can be used to predict and analyze customer churn.

2) Data Utilization (1) Telco Customer Churn Dataset has characteristics that: • This dataset includes a variety of customer and service characteristics, including gender, age group, partner and dependents, service subscription status (telephone, Internet, security, backup, device protection, technical support, streaming, etc.), contract type, payment method, monthly fee, total fee, and departure. (2) Telco Customer Churn Dataset can be used to: • Development of customer churn prediction model: Using customer service usage patterns and account information, we can build a machine learning-based churn prediction model to proactively identify customers at risk of churn.

The customer churn dataset is a collection of customer data that focuses on predicting customer churn, which refers to the tendency of customers to stop using a company's products or services. The dataset contains various features that describe each customer, such as their credit score, country, gender, age, tenure, balance, number of products, credit card status, active membership, estimated salary, and churn status. The churn status indicates whether a customer has churned or not. The dataset is used to analyze and understand factors that contribute to customer churn and to build predictive models to identify customers at risk of churning. The goal is to develop strategies and interventions to reduce churn and improve customer retention

1) Data Introduction • The Customer Churn Dataset is a dataset that collects various customer characteristics and service usage information to predict whether or not communication service customers will turn.

2) Data Utilization (1) Customer Churn Dataset has characteristics that: • The dataset consists of several categorical and numerical variables, including customer demographics, service types, contract information, charges, usage patterns, and Turn. (2) Customer Churn Dataset can be used to: • Development of customer churn prediction model : Machine learning and deep learning techniques can be used to develop classification models that predict churn based on customer characteristics and service use data. • Segmenting customers and developing marketing strategies : It can be used to analyze customer groups at high risk of departure and to design custom retention strategies or targeted marketing campaigns.

E-commerce Customer Churn Dataset

Context

This dataset belongs to a leading online E-commerce company. The company wants to identify customers who are likely to churn, so they can proactively approach these customers with promotional offers.

Content

The dataset contains various features related to customer behavior and characteristics, which can be used to predict customer churn.

Features

1. Tenure: Tenure of a customer in the company (numeric)
2. WarehouseToHome: Distance between the warehouse to the customer's home (numeric)
3. NumberOfDeviceRegistered: Total number of devices registered to a particular customer (numeric)
4. PreferedOrderCat: Preferred order category of a customer in the last month (categorical)
5. SatisfactionScore: Satisfactory score of a customer on service (numeric)
6. MaritalStatus: Marital status of a customer (categorical)
7. NumberOfAddress: Total number of addresses added for a particular customer (numeric)
8. Complaint: Whether any complaint has been raised in the last month (binary)
9. DaySinceLastOrder: Days since last order by customer (numeric)
10. CashbackAmount: Average cashback in last month (numeric)
11. Churn: Churn flag (target variable, binary)

Task

The main task is to predict customer churn based on the given features. This is a binary classification problem where the target variable is 'Churn'.

Potential Applications

1. Customer Retention: Identify at-risk customers and take proactive measures to retain them.
2. Targeted Marketing: Design specific marketing campaigns for customers likely to churn.
3. Service Improvement: Analyze features contributing to churn and improve those aspects of the service.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is provided for educational purposes. While it represents a real-world scenario, the data itself may be simulated or anonymized.

Context and Methodology

The dataset originates from the research domain of Customer Churn Prediction in the Telecom Industry. It was created as part of the project "Data-Driven Churn Prediction: ML Solutions for the Telecom Industry," completed within the Data Stewardship course (Master programme Data Science, TU Wien).

The primary purpose of this dataset is to support machine learning model development for predicting customer churn based on customer demographics, service usage, and account information.
The dataset enables the training, testing, and evaluation of classification algorithms, allowing researchers and practitioners to explore techniques for customer retention optimization.

The dataset was originally obtained from the IBM Accelerator Catalog and adapted for academic use. It was uploaded to TU Wien’s DBRepo test system and accessed via SQLAlchemy connections to the MariaDB environment.

Technical Details

The dataset has a tabular structure and was initially stored in CSV format. It contains:

• Rows: 7,043 customer records

• Columns: 21 features including customer attributes (gender, senior citizen status, partner status), account information (tenure, contract type, payment method), service usage (internet service, streaming TV, tech support), and the target variable (Churn: Yes/No).

Naming Convention:

• The table in the database is named telco_customer_churn_data.

Software Requirements:

• To open and work with the dataset, any standard database client or programming language supporting MariaDB connections can be used (e.g., Python etc).

• For machine learning applications, libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, and joblib are typically used.

Additional Resources:

• Source code for data loading, preprocessing, model training, and evaluation is available at the associated GitHub repository: https://github.com/nazerum/fair-ml-customer-churn

Further Details

When reusing the dataset, users should be aware:

• Licensing: The dataset is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

• Use Case Suitability: The dataset is best suited for classification tasks, particularly binary classification (churn vs. no churn).

• Metadata Standards: Metadata describing the dataset adheres to FAIR principles and is supplemented by CodeMeta and Croissant standards for improved interoperability.

Analysis of ‘JB Link Telco Customer Churn’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/johnflag/jb-link-telco-customer-churn on 28 January 2022.

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This is a customized version of the widely known IBM Telco Customer Churn dataset. I've added a few more columns and modified others in order to make it a little more realistic.

My customizations are based on the following version: Telco customer churn (11.1.3+)

Below you may find a fictional business problem I created. You may use it in order to start developing something around this dataset.

JB Link Customer Churn Problem

JB Link is a small size telecom company located in the state of California that provides Phone and Internet services to customers on more than a 1,000 cities and 1,600 zip codes.

The company is in the market for just 6 years and has quickly grown by investing on infrastructure to bring internet and phone networks to regions that had poor or no coverage.

The company also has a very skilled sales team that is always performing well on attracting new customers. The number of new customers acquired in the past quarter represent 15% over the total.

However, by the end of this same period, only 43% of this customers stayed with the company and most of them decided on not renewing their contracts after a few months, meaning the customer churn rate is very high and the company is now facing a big challenge on retaining its customers.

The total customer churn rate last quarter was around 27%, resulting in a decrease of almost 12% in the total number of customers.

The executive leadership of JB Link is aware that some competitors are investing on new technologies and on the expansion of their network coverage and they believe this is one of the main drivers of the high customer churn rate.

Therefore, as an action plan, they have decided to created a task force inside the company that will be responsible to work on a customer retention strategy.

The task force will involve members from different areas of the company, including Sales, Finance, Marketing, Customer Service, Tech Support and a recent formed Data Science team.

The data science team will play a key role on this process and was assigned some very important tasks that will support on the decisions and actions the other teams will be taking : - Gather insights from the data to understand what is driving the high customer churn rate. - Develop a Machine Learning model that can accurately predict the customers that are more likely to churn. - Prescribe customized actions that could be taken in order to retain each of those customers.

The Data Science team was given a dataset with a random sample of 7,043 customers that can help on achieving this task.

The executives are aware that the cost of acquiring a new customer can be up to five times higher than the cost of retaining a customer, so they are expecting that the results of this project will save a lot of money to the company and make it start growing again.

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Dataset

This dataset was created by Panda-monium

Contents

This Synthetic Customer Churn Prediction Dataset has been designed as an educational resource for exploring data science, machine learning, and predictive modelling techniques in a customer retention context. The dataset simulates key attributes relevant to customer churn analysis, such as service usage, contract details, and customer demographics. It allows users to practice data manipulation, visualization, and the development of models to predict churn behaviour in industries like telecommunications, subscription services, or utilities.

Dataset Features:

• Customer_Id: Unique identifier for each customer (not included in this dataset for privacy).
• Gender: Gender of the customer (e.g., "Male," "Female").
• Partner: Whether the customer has a partner (e.g., "Yes," "No").
• Dependents: Whether the customer has dependents (e.g., "Yes," "No").
• Tenure (Months): The number of months the customer has been with the company.
• PhoneService: Whether the customer has a phone service (e.g., "Yes," "No").
• MultipleLines: Whether the customer has multiple phone lines (e.g., "Yes," "No phone service").
• InternetService: Type of internet service (e.g., "DSL," "Fiber optic," "No").
• OnlineSecurity: Whether the customer has online security services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• OnlineBackup: Whether the customer has online backup services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• DeviceProtection: Whether the customer has device protection services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• TechSupport: Whether the customer has tech support services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• StreamingTV: Whether the customer has streaming TV services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• StreamingMovies: Whether the customer has streaming movies services (e.g., "Yes," "No," "No internet service").
• Contract: Type of contract the customer has (e.g., "Month-to-month," "One year," "Two year").
• PaperlessBilling: Whether the customer uses paperless billing (e.g., "Yes," "No").
• PaymentMethod: The payment method used by the customer (e.g., "Electronic check," "Credit card," "Bank transfer").
• MonthlyCharges: Monthly charges billed to the customer.
• TotalCharges: Total charges incurred by the customer over their tenure.
• Churn: Whether the customer has churned (e.g., "Yes," "No").

Distribution:

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Usage:

This dataset is useful for a variety of applications, including:

• Customer Behavior Analysis: To understand factors influencing customer retention and churn.
• Educational Training: To practice data cleaning, feature engineering, and visualization techniques in customer analytics.
• Predictive Modeling: To build machine learning models for predicting customer churn based on service usage patterns and demographic information.

Coverage:

This dataset is synthetic and anonymized, making it a safe tool for experimentation and learning without compromising real patient privacy.

License:

CCO (Public Domain)

Who can use it:

• Data scientists and enthusiasts: For developing customer analytics skills and predictive modelling expertise.
• Business analysts: To understand customer churn drivers and improve retention strategies.
• Educators and students: For teaching and learning applications in data science and machine learning.

Analyzing customers’ characteristics and giving the early warning of customer churn based on machine learning algorithms, can help enterprises provide targeted marketing strategies and personalized services, and save a lot of operating costs. Data cleaning, oversampling, data standardization and other preprocessing operations are done on 900,000 telecom customer personal characteristics and historical behavior data set based on Python language. Appropriate model parameters were selected to build BPNN (Back Propagation Neural Network). Random Forest (RF) and Adaboost, the two classic ensemble learning models were introduced, and the Adaboost dual-ensemble learning model with RF as the base learner was put forward. The four models and the other four classical machine learning models-decision tree, naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) were utilized respectively to analyze the customer churn data. The results show that the four models have better performance in terms of recall rate, precision rate, F1 score and other indicators, and the RF-Adaboost dual-ensemble model has the best performance. Among them, the recall rates of BPNN, RF, Adaboost and RF-Adaboost dual-ensemble model on positive samples are respectively 79%, 90%, 89%,93%, the precision rates are 97%, 99%, 98%, 99%, and the F1 scores are 87%, 95%, 94%, 96%. The RF-Adaboost dual-ensemble model has the best performance, and the three indicators are 10%, 1%, and 6% higher than the reference. The prediction results of customer churn provide strong data support for telecom companies to adopt appropriate retention strategies for pre-churn customers and reduce customer churn.

Customer Churn Software Market Outlook

The global customer churn software market size was valued at approximately USD 1.5 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 4.8 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 13.7% during the forecast period. This robust growth is driven by several factors, including the increasing importance of customer retention in competitive markets, advancements in AI and machine learning technologies, and the growing adoption of digital transformation initiatives across industries.

One of the primary growth factors propelling the customer churn software market is the increasing emphasis on customer satisfaction and retention. In today's highly competitive business environment, retaining existing customers is more cost-effective than acquiring new ones. Companies are realizing the value of customer loyalty, and as a result, they are investing heavily in tools that can help predict and mitigate churn. Customer churn software offers advanced analytics and predictive capabilities, enabling organizations to identify at-risk customers and take proactive measures to retain them.

Another significant driver is the advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. These technologies have revolutionized the way customer data is analyzed and interpreted. AI-powered customer churn software can process vast amounts of data from multiple sources, identify patterns, and generate actionable insights. This ability to leverage big data and predictive analytics is crucial for businesses aiming to stay ahead of the competition. As AI and machine learning continue to evolve, the effectiveness and efficiency of customer churn software are expected to improve further.

The increasing adoption of digital transformation initiatives across various industries is also contributing to the market growth. As businesses undergo digital transformation, they generate enormous amounts of data related to customer behavior, preferences, and interactions. Customer churn software helps organizations make sense of this data, enabling them to develop personalized strategies to enhance customer experience and loyalty. The shift towards data-driven decision-making is compelling companies to invest in advanced analytics solutions, thereby driving the demand for customer churn software.

From a regional perspective, North America holds a significant share of the customer churn software market, driven by the presence of major technology companies and the early adoption of advanced analytics solutions. However, the Asia Pacific region is expected to witness the highest growth rate during the forecast period. Factors such as the rapid digitalization of economies, increasing investments in AI and machine learning, and the growing focus on customer-centric strategies in emerging markets are fueling the demand for customer churn software in this region.

Component Analysis

The customer churn software market is segmented into two primary components: software and services. The software segment includes the actual customer churn solutions, while the services segment encompasses implementation, training, support, and consulting services. The software segment is expected to dominate the market due to the high demand for advanced analytics and predictive tools. Companies across various industries are increasingly adopting software solutions to gain insights into customer behavior and predict churn. The software segment's growth is further supported by continuous advancements in AI and machine learning technologies, which enhance the capabilities of customer churn solutions.

The services segment, although smaller in comparison to the software segment, plays a crucial role in the market. Services such as implementation and training ensure that organizations can effectively deploy and utilize customer churn software. Support and consulting services are equally important, as they help companies optimize their software usage and develop customized strategies to address specific churn-related challenges. The demand for these services is expected to grow in tandem with the adoption of customer churn software, as businesses seek to maximize their return on investment and achieve better customer retention outcomes.

Moreover, the integration of customer churn software with existing CRM systems and other business applications is becoming increasingly important. This integration enables a seamless flow of data and enhances the overall efficiency of customer retention efforts. As a result, solutions that offer robust integration capa

Analysis of ‘Customer Churn’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/hassanamin/customer-churn on 14 February 2022.

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Binary Customer Churn

A marketing agency has many customers that use their service to produce ads for the client/customer websites. They've noticed that they have quite a bit of churn in clients. They basically randomly assign account managers right now, but want you to create a machine learning model that will help predict which customers will churn (stop buying their service) so that they can correctly assign the customers most at risk to churn an account manager. Luckily they have some historical data, can you help them out? Create a classification algorithm that will help classify whether or not a customer churned. Then the company can test this against incoming data for future customers to predict which customers will churn and assign them an account manager.

Content

The data is saved as customer_churn.csv. Here are the fields and their definitions:

Name : Name of the latest contact at Company

Age: Customer Age

Total_Purchase: Total Ads Purchased

Account_Manager: Binary 0=No manager, 1= Account manager assigned

Years: Totaly Years as a customer

Num_sites: Number of websites that use the service.

Onboard_date: Date that the name of the latest contact was onboarded

Location: Client HQ Address

Company: Name of Client Company

Once you've created the model and evaluated it, test out the model on some new data (you can think of this almost like a hold-out set) that your client has provided, saved under new_customers.csv. The client wants to know which customers are most likely to churn given this data (they don't have the label yet).

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of others. If you owe any attributions or thanks, include them here along with any citations of past research.

Inspiration

Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered?

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Churn prediction aims to detect customers intended to leave a service provider. Retaining one customer costs an organization from 5 to 10 times than gaining a new one. Predictive models can provide correct identification of possible churners in the near future in order to provide a retention solution. This paper presents a new prediction model based on Data Mining (DM) techniques. The proposed model is composed of six steps which are; identify problem domain, data selection, investigate data set, classification, clustering and knowledge usage. A data set with 23 attributes and 5000 instances is used. 4000 instances used for training the model and 1000 instances used as a testing set. The predicted churners are clustered into 3 categories in case of using in a retention strategy. The data mining techniques used in this paper are Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine and Neural Network throughout an open source software name WEKA.

This dataset contains synthetic data simulating customer behavior for a Netflix-like video streaming service. It includes 5,000 records with 14 carefully engineered features designed for churn prediction modeling, business insights, and customer segmentation.

The dataset is ideal for:

Machine learning classification tasks (churn vs. non-churn)

Exploratory data analysis (EDA)

Customer behavior modeling in OTT platforms

In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the financial system and the rapid development of the banking industry, the competition of the banking industry itself has intensified. At the same time, with the rapid development of information technology and Internet technology, customers’ choice of financial products is becoming more and more diversified, and customers’ dependence and loyalty to banking institutions is becoming less and less, and the problem of customer churn in commercial banks is becoming more and more prominent. How to predict customer behavior and retain existing customers has become a major challenge for banks to solve. Therefore, this study takes a bank’s business data on Kaggle platform as the research object, uses multiple sampling methods to compare the data for balancing, constructs a bank customer churn prediction model for churn identification by GA-XGBoost, and conducts interpretability analysis on the GA-XGBoost model to provide decision support and suggestions for the banking industry to prevent customer churn. The results show that: (1) The applied SMOTEENN is more effective than SMOTE and ADASYN in dealing with the imbalance of banking data. (2) The F1 and AUC values of the model improved and optimized by XGBoost using genetic algorithm can reach 90% and 99%, respectively, which are optimal compared to other six machine learning models. The GA-XGBoost classifier was identified as the best solution for the customer churn problem. (3) Using Shapley values, we explain how each feature affects the model results, and analyze the features that have a high impact on the model prediction, such as the total number of transactions in the past year, the amount of transactions in the past year, the number of products owned by customers, and the total sales balance. The contribution of this paper is mainly in two aspects: (1) this study can provide useful information from the black box model based on the accurate identification of churned customers, which can provide reference for commercial banks to improve their service quality and retain customers; (2) it can provide reference for customer churn early warning models of other related industries, which can help the banking industry to maintain customer stability, maintain market position and reduce corporate losses.

Analysis of ‘Client churn rate in Telecom sector’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/sagnikpatra/edadata on 13 February 2022.

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Context "Predict behavior to retain customers. You can analyze all relevant customer data and develop focused customer retention programs."

Content The Orange Telecom's Churn Dataset, which consists of cleaned customer activity data (features), along with a churn label specifying whether a customer canceled the subscription, will be used to develop predictive models. Two datasets are made available here: The churn-80 and churn-20 datasets can be downloaded.

The two sets are from the same batch, but have been split by an 80/20 ratio. As more data is often desirable for developing ML models, let's use the larger set (that is, churn-80) for training and cross-validation purposes, and the smaller set (that is, churn-20) for final testing and model performance evaluation.

Inspiration To explore this type of models and learn more about the subject.

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Brand performance data collected from AI search platforms for the query "customer churn prediction marketing uses".

Dataset

This dataset was created by Hectar

Released under Other (specified in description)

Contents

Analysis of ‘Telco Customer Churn’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/blastchar/telco-customer-churn on 28 January 2022.

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Context

"Predict behavior to retain customers. You can analyze all relevant customer data and develop focused customer retention programs." [IBM Sample Data Sets]

Content

Each row represents a customer, each column contains customer’s attributes described on the column Metadata.

The data set includes information about:

• Customers who left within the last month – the column is called Churn
• Services that each customer has signed up for – phone, multiple lines, internet, online security, online backup, device protection, tech support, and streaming TV and movies
• Customer account information – how long they’ve been a customer, contract, payment method, paperless billing, monthly charges, and total charges
• Demographic info about customers – gender, age range, and if they have partners and dependents

Inspiration

To explore this type of models and learn more about the subject.

New version from IBM: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/steven-macko/2019/07/11/telco-customer-churn-1113

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