Customer churn analysis using XGBoosted decision trees

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Customer churn analysis using XGBoosted decision trees
Muthupriya Vaudevan1
, Revathi Sathya Narayanan1
, Sabiyath Fatima Nakeeb1
, Abhishek2
1
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
2
Department of Computer Applications, B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received May 29, 2021
Revised Nov 1, 2021
Accepted Nov 23, 2021
Customer relationship management (CRM) is an important element in all
forms of industry. This process involves ensuring that the customers of a
business are satisfied with the product or services that they are paying for.
Since most businesses collect and store large volumes of data about their
customers; it is easy for the data analysts to use that data and perform
predictive analysis. One aspect of this includes customer retention and
customer churn. Customer churn is defined as the concept of understanding
whether or not a customer of the company will stop using the product or
service in future. In this paper a supervised machine learning algorithm has
been implemented using Python to perform customer churn analysis on a
given data-set of Telco, a mobile telecommunication company. This is
achieved by building a decision tree model based on historical data provided
by the company on the platform of Kaggle. This report also investigates the
utility of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) library in the gradient boosting
framework (XGB) of Python for its portable and flexible functionality which
can be used to solve many data science related problems highly efficiently.
The implementation result shows the accuracy is comparatively improved in
XGBoost than other learning models.
Keywords:
Convolution matrix
Customer churn
Decision tree
Grid search
One-hot algorithm
Supervised algorithm
XGBoost
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Muthupriya Vaudevan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology
Seethakathi Extate, GST Road, Vandalur, Chennai-48, India
Email: muthupriya@crescent.education
1. INTRODUCTION
In traditional information technology (IT) projects, the process of development is usually well defined
and pretty straightforward. It follows the same procedure of: identifying a business case, developing a system
that meets the needs of the business case, drawing timelines for deliverables, and everyone enlisted in the
project is tasked with work that must comply with documented requirements. There are few ambiguities in
well-constructed IT projects, and everyone understands the order of work. This isn’t usually the case in data
science projects. Here, business cases can be drawn up but arriving at the desired results isn’t always
straightforward and predictable. The only hard metric that is applicable for most data science projects is that
the results derived from algorithms operating on data must be at least certain percentage “right” when compared
with an accepted standard for determining correctness. Several research analyses [1]-[6] were carried out to
predict the customer churn in various industries. With that being said it is important to mention that this
research proposal is a data science project which involves taking a data set that is available for use and
implementing a certain machine learning algorithm on it to successfully achieve a result with desired accuracy.
In this paper, the machine learning algorithm used is called XGBoosted decision trees that is used to classify
objects into one category or another and the final model built should be able to help in accurately predicting

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the customer churn. The paper is organized is such a way that in section 2, the literature survey on the existing
work is disseminated. Then in section 3, the proposed model and its design methodologies are discussed.
Following in section 4, the implementation details are covered and in section 5, result of the proposed model
is analyzed is detail.
Customer churn analysis: churn determinants and mediation effects of partial defection in the Korean
mobile telecommunications service industry by Ahna et al. [7]. Retaining customers is a crucial challenge in
the any industry including mobile telecommunications. Using the customer transaction and billing data
captured by companies, studies have investigated the determinants of customer churn in the Korean mobile
telecommunications service market. Results indicated that call quality-related are major factors in customer
churn; however, factors like customers participating in membership card programs also play a vital role, which
further pushes the concept down the process of understanding program effectiveness. Furthermore, it was
observed that heavy users also tend to churn.
Customer churn analysis in Telecom industry by Dahiya and Bhatia [8]. There is a lot of scope for
researchers in analyzing telecommunication industry data [9]-[13]. Poel and Lariviere [14] surveyed the
importance of the economic value of customer retention. Since the major source of profit in any industry are
its customers, customer churn plays a significant role in the survival and development of any type industry
especially the telecommunications industry. Customer acquisition and retention can be improved by applying
customer relationship management (CRM) tools for increasing profit and for supporting analytical tasks [15].
The association of CRM [16]-[18] further helps in capturing data and satisfying needs of soon to be non-
customers in future. Understanding churn using data mining also helps these companies to employ effective
marketing strategies [19]–[24]. Data mining techniques are applied in telecommunications for CRM because
of the rapid growth of the huge amount of data; high pace in the market competition and increase in the churn
rate [25]. These industries have suffered from high churn rates and immense churning loss. Although the
business loss is unavoidable, but still churn can be managed and kept in an acceptable level. Good methods
need to be developed and existing methods have to be enhanced to prevent the telecommunication industry to
face challenges.
Many existing methods take plenty of time and yield accuracy below desired levels. To overcome all
these challenges, we need a solution that is accurate, fast and reliable in predicting customer churn. The
problem is to utilize each of the available alternatives to come up with accuracy levels that are desired while
measuring the complexity levels of the taken algorithm.Withthe complexities involved it is necessary to explore
different options available in pursuit of better optimized methods. Some its drawbacks are various levels of
complexities, time consuming, varyingaccuracy.
The paper is organized in such a way that in section 2, the proposed model and its design
methodologies are described. Following in section 4, the method and implementation details are covered and
in section 5, result of the proposed model is analyzed and discussed.
2. PROPOSED METHOD
For all businesses, customer retention is important to sustain a profitable growth through an
established consumer base. To retain a customer and prevent customer churn, it is first important to identify
the set of customers that are likely to leave. This would help the business to focus on these customers and take
necessary steps to provide incentive to make the customers stay. Hence identification of possible “soon to be
non-customers” is important.
The proposed method involves using XGBoosted decision trees to find out customer churn. Boosting
is an ensemble technique for the creation of a collection of predictors. In this technique, trees are built
sequentially with early trees fitting simple models to the data and then analyzing data for errors. In other words,
consecutive trees are fitted (random sample) and at every step, the goal is to solve for net error from the prior
tree. When an input is wrongly classified by a hypothesis, its weight is increased so that next hypothesis is
more likely to classify it correctly. By combining the whole set at the end converts weak trees into a better
performing model. This paper tries to experiment on the claim of XGBoost classifier to see if an accurate model
can be built that outperforms existing model successfully. The proposed method aims to provide efficient and
accurate result compared with existing method.
2.1. Design
The Figure 1 shows the general design and Figure 2 explains the detailed design associated with the
proposed method. According to the documentation of XGBoost, it is an optimized distributed gradient boosting
library designed to be highly efficient, flexible and portable. It implements machine learning algorithms under
the gradient boosting framework. XGBoost provides a parallel tree boosting (also known as gradient boosting
decision tree (GBDT), gradient boosting machines (GBM)) that solve many data science problems in a fast and

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accurate way. The same code runs on major distributed environment (Hadoop, SGE, message passing interface
(MPI)) and can solve problems beyond billions of examples.
Figure 1. General design of proposed method Figure 2. Detailed design of proposed method
2.2. Data-set design
The data set has 7043 records and 21 attribute columns. The data set includes details of customers
who have left within the last month called churn, services that each customer has signed up for phone, multiple
lines, internet, online security, online backup, device protection, tech support, streaming TV, movies, and
account information of the customer like how long they’ve been a customer, contract, payment method,
paperless billing, monthly charges, total charges, and demographic information about the customers like
gender, age range, and if they have partners and dependents.
3. METHOD
Implementation is the stage in which theoretical design is turned out into a working system. In this
section, the details of imported modules and data are given. Also, it provides information on data processing
and formatting and further building of preliminary model. Finally, the confusion matrix is used to analyze the
behavior of the model.
3.1. Importing modules
The selection of the correct modules/libraries is an important task as pre-written libraries make the
analysis easier. Identifying the correct libraries is also crucial as importing unnecessary libraries is a waste of
memory. After analysis and help from references, the following modules were installed for use: i) table libraries
used library purpose pandas, ii) data manipulation and one hot encoding NumPy quantitative analysis, iii)
XGBoost classifier, iv) sklearn model-selection cross validation and algorithm implement, and v) sklearn
metrics for confusion matrix.
3.2. Importing data (telco from Kaggle)
After the successful installation of libraries into the notebook, the first step to do is load the data. The
loaded data is downloaded from Kaggle.com and stored into a data frame called df. The data frame now
contains 7043 records with 21 attribute columns each. For visualization the first five rows and 6 columns of
the data set are displayed using the head() function in the Table 1.
Table 1. First five rows of data-set
S.No Customer
Id
Gender Senior
Citizen
Partner Dependents Tenure
1 7515 Male 0 Yes No 1
2 5523 Female 0 No No 34
3 3924 Male 0 No No 2
4 9237 Male 1 No No 45
5 4657 Female 0 No No 2
3.3. Identifying and dealing with missing data
In Table 2, each row of the data set represents a customer record; each column given in the data set
contains the customer’s attributes described on the column Metadata. The next step in the analysis is to clean

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and format data. For that purpose usage of the info() function takes place to get the meta data of the data set as
shown in initial data set column of Table 1. After looking at this column the following conclusions are made.
i) Remove customerID column as it has unique values and will have no contribution to the analysis,
ii) Converting values in churn column from No/Yes to 0/1, and
iii) Then converting the data type of churn column from object to int64.
After filling up the missing values in the total charges column, its Type() was converted to float64
data type. The new meta data for the updated data set after stage 3 is given in updated column of Table 2.
Table 2. Initial and updated data set design
S. No Column Not null count Initial type () Updated type ()
1 customerID 7043 Object Object
2 Gender 7043 Object Object
3 SeniorCitizen 7043 Int64 Int64
4 Partner 7043 Object Object
5 Dependents 7043 Object Object
6 Tenure 7043 Object Int64
7 PhoneService 7043 Object Object
8 MultipleLines 7043 Object Object
9 InternetService 7043 Object Object
10 OnlineSecurity 7043 Object Object
11 OnlineBackup 7043 Object Object
12 DeviceProtection 7043 Object Object
13 TechSupport 7043 Object Object
14 StreamingTV 7043 Object Object
15 StreamingMovies 7043 Object Object
16 Contract 7043 Object Object
17 PaperlessBilling 7043 Object Object
18 PaymentMethod 7043 Object Object
19 MonthlyCharges 7043 Float64 Float64
20 TotalCharges 7043 Object Float64
21 Churn 7043 Object Int64
3.4. Formatting and one hot encoding
After the data has been cleaned, the data needed to be brought into a format that was acceptable by
the XGB classifier. For this purpose, the data went through the following transformations: removal of white
spaces in the data: white spaces are removed as classification in XGB classifier requires continuous labels.
Then the data is splitted into dependant and independent variable Y and X respectively. The churn column is
taken as the dependant variable Y and the entire data set other than the churn column is taken as independent
variable X.
One hot encoding is a process where for making decision trees it is essential to classify categorical
variables into 0 and 1 combinations. This means if for a column gender, there are two values male or female,
after one hot encoding male and female values will become a column each themselves and if in a new record
the value of gender column is male then male column will have value 1 and female column will have value 0.
After the splitting of gender column into male and female columns, the gender column gets removed from the
data set. Creation of these new columns does not take extra space as XGBoost uses sparse matrices so it doesn’t
allocate memory to zeros. The data set before and after one hot encoding is shown in Tables 3 and 4.
Table 3. Before one hot encoding
S.No Customer Id Male
1 7515 1
2 5523 0
3 3924 0
4 9237 1
5 4657 0
Table 4. After one hot encoding
S.No Customer Id Male Female
1 7515 1 0
2 5523 0 1
3 3924 0 1
4 9237 1 0
5 4657 0 1

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3.5. Building preliminary model
Now that the data is formatted, the model can be built by feeding the data into the classifier. This
involves splitting the data into training and testing data. Training data is a part of the data set on which the
model is built and testing data is a part of the data set on which the model built is tested for accuracy. Before
splitting the data, it is essential to maintain the balance in ratio of churn in the entire data set with both ratio of
churn in both training and testing data set. After calculating it was found that 27 random state=42. After
splitting the data, the model is built in the iterations as,
 Iteration 0: validation_0-aucpr: 0.579067,
 Iteration 1: validation_0 − aucpr: 0.63937,
 Iteration 2- validation_0 − aucpr: 0.63839,
 Till iteration 50: validation_0-aucpr: 0.652923.
The best value is got at iteration 40: validation0−aucpr: 0.654216, XGBClassifier (seed=42). The
model was built after gradient boosting of 50 trees and the early stopping rounds was set to 10. This implied
that after building 10 more trees without any better aucpr metric (used for evaluation) the process would stop
and the (n-10)th iteration is best iteration and in this case: 40th iteration.
3.6. Confusion matrix
Confusion matrix is an essential for understanding the performance of a machine learning model. It is
defined as a performance measurement model to understand how well a machine learning model that was built
is working. For our model we are aiming at a target: accuracy of 80% in identifying churn (customer who left
the company) and the Table 5 shows the confusion matrix for the reading mentioned in Table 6.
Table 5. Confusion matrix for preliminary model
Label Predicted Did not Leave Predicted Left
True
Did not Leave
1186 108
TrueLeft 242 225
Table 6. Statistics of confusion matrix
Label Total Predicted Accuracy
Did not Leave 1294 1186 91.65
Left 467 225 48.1
3.7. Optimizing parameters with cross validation (grid search)
The accuracy for customers not leaving the company was found to be 91.65%. The accuracy of the
prediction of people who actually leave must be improved and find the cause only for the same. Then only the
company can stop them from leaving. So, in order to achieve this, the optimization and cross validation are
done. XGBoost has a lot of hyper parameters which needs to be tweaked in order to set the direction of the
processing which yields better accuracy for people who have left the company. Some of them are gamma, max
depth, reg lambda, scale post weight, and GridSearchCV has been used in which data is sub sampled by 90%
of the data and only 50% of the columns are used for each tree built. This is helps in better cross validation.
This is achieved in two rounds of hit and trial which is shown in Table 7.
After building the model with these values it was noticed that the accuracy was going even lower. So
the values were increased in opposite direction and the updated values were arrived as given in Table 8. For
the updated values of the hyper parameters given in Table 8, an updated final confusion matrix is shown in
Table 9. Therefore, it can be observed from Table 10 that the desired accuracy of > 80% has been achieved by
tweaking the hyper parameters for the values of hyper parameters in the Table 8.
Table 7. Hyper parameters after two rounds
Round Gamma Learning Rate Max depth Reg Lambda Scale pos weight
1 1 0.05 3 0 1
2 0.1 0.1 3 0 0.5
Table 8. Hyper parameters after final round
Round Gamma Learning Rate Max depth Reg Lambda Scale pos weight
N 0,25 0.1 4 10 3

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Table 9. Final confusion matrix
Label Predicted Did not Leave Predicted Left
True
Did not Leave
934 360
True
Left
84 383
Table 10. Final statistics from final confusion matrix
Label Total Predicted Accuracy
Did not Leave 1294 934 72.17
Left 467 383 82.1
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The customer churn analysis is one of the important challenging areas in research. It has its many
applications in banking sectors, super marks, telecommunications and other customer related applications. In
this paper this is implemented using supervised machine learning algorithm using Python on a given data-set
of Telco, a mobile telecommunication company. The implementation shows that using XGBoost, it gives
comparatively more accurate prediction than other learning models. The Figure 3 gives comparison of accuracy
prediction in different learning models. It can be analyzed from the graph that the prediction of accuracy on
customer churn analysis is more in XGBoost learning model and so by using this model, reasons for customer
leaving the company can be analyzed and based on that proper solution can be achieved.
Figure 3. Comparative analysis of accuracy % in different learning models
5. CONCLUSION
Telecommunication industry usually suffers from high rates of customer churn. Although the business
loss is unavoidable, but still churn can be managed and kept in an acceptable level. Good methods need to be
developed and existing methods have to be enhanced to prevent the telecommunication industry to face
challenges. Customer churn prediction becomes a very difficult task for many startups and upcoming
companies and so it is very tough to predict the genuine customers of these companies. Therefore, more latest
learning models in machine learning and deep learning techniques using assembling models can be used for
such predictions with accurate results.
The future enhancements that can be performed in this model involves improving accuracy. Through
more rounds of cross validation and working with real time data software like Apache Spark to enhance the
model to perform real time customer churn prediction. The user interface (UI) aspect of the application can
also be improved from the aspect of making it clearer for business stakeholders.

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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Dr. Muthupriya Vaudevan received her B.E. degree in Computer Science
Engineering (CSE) from Madras University, India in 1999 and her M.E (CSE) from Madras
University, India in 2003. She completed her Ph.D., in Crescent University Chennai. She is
currently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of CSE, Crescent University
Chennai. She has 21 years of teaching experience and her areas of interest are Wireless
Mobile Ad hoc networks, Cryptography and Network security, Machine learning and IoT
She is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), the System Society
of India. She can be contacted at email: muthupriya@crescent.education.

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Dr. Revathi Sathya Narayanan received her B.E. degree in Computer Science
Engineering (CSE) from Bharathidasan University, India in 1994 and her M.E (CSE) from
Madurai Kamarajar University, India in 2000. She completed her Ph.D., in Anna University
Chennai in 2014. She is currently working as a professor in the department of CSE, B.S.
Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. She has 26 years of
teaching experience and her areas of interest are Wireless Mobile Ad hoc networks,
Cryptography and Network security and IoT. She published more than 50 papers in National
and International conferences and journals. She is a life member of Indian Society for
Technical Education (ISTE), CSI and IAENG. She can be contacted at email:
srevathi@crescent.education.
Dr. Sabiyath Fatima Nakeeb Associate Professor, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology,
Chennai. She has professional experience of more than 18 years working in research and
teaching. She has published book chapters and more than 30 papers in various National and
International peer reviewed journals (IEEE and Springer) and conferences. Acted as resource
person, panel member, chief guest, guest of honor and given plenary talk in various industries
and institutions as a part of training, seminars, workshops, international and national
conferences. She has been active reviewer in various International Journals and Conferences.
Her teaching and research expertise covers a wide range of subject area including Mobile Ad
Hoc Networks, Data mining, High Performance Computing, IoT, Big data, and Machine
learning. She can be contacted at email: sabiyathfathima@crescent.education.
Abhishek was born on 18th October 1997 in New Delhi, India. He has received
his Bachelor of Computer Application degree in the year 2019 from Maharaja Surajmal
Institute affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. He has
completed his Master of Computer Application degree in B.S. Abdur Rahman University,
Chennai, India. His areas of research interest are Machine learning and Data Mining. He can
be contacted at email: abhi.official97@gmail.com.

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