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Milestones for 6-Month AI Project: Customer Churn Prediction

Month 1: Project Initialization and Data Collection

  • Milestone 1: Define Project Scope and Objectives
    • Clearly define the business problem (customer churn prediction) and success criteria.
    • Outline specific goals: Predict churn probability, identify at-risk customers, improve retention strategies.
  • Milestone 2: Collect and Clean Data
    • Gather historical customer data, including demographics, transaction history, customer interactions, and churn labels.
    • Perform initial data cleaning: handle missing values, correct inconsistencies, and remove duplicates.
  • Milestone 3: Data Exploration and Preprocessing
    • Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand distributions, correlations, and key patterns.
    • Preprocess the data: feature scaling, one-hot encoding, categorical variable transformation, and feature selection.

Month 2: Feature Engineering and Model Selection

  • Milestone 4: Feature Engineering
    • Create new features based on domain knowledge, such as customer tenure, usage frequency, and customer service interactions.
    • Use techniques like interaction terms, feature encoding, and aggregation to improve model input.
  • Milestone 5: Select Initial Machine Learning Models
    • Evaluate various classification models such as Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, and Gradient Boosting.
    • Select a baseline model to establish initial performance metrics.

Month 3: Model Training and Hyperparameter Tuning

  • Milestone 6: Model Training
    • Train the selected models using the prepared training dataset.
    • Evaluate initial performance using metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score on the validation set.
  • Milestone 7: Hyperparameter Tuning
    • Use cross-validation and grid/random search techniques to optimize hyperparameters (e.g., number of trees for Random Forest, max depth, learning rate for Gradient Boosting).
    • Monitor overfitting and adjust model complexity.

Month 4: Model Evaluation and Iteration

  • Milestone 8: Model Evaluation
    • Evaluate models on a hold-out test dataset to assess generalization and avoid overfitting.
    • Compare different models’ performance using precision, recall, ROC-AUC, and F1-score.
    • Analyze performance in terms of business impact, such as identifying the most at-risk customer segments.
  • Milestone 9: Model Refinement
    • Refine the model based on performance results. This may involve further feature engineering, removing irrelevant features, or retraining models with adjusted hyperparameters.

Month 5: Model Deployment Preparation and Integration

  • Milestone 10: Model Interpretability and Validation
    • Assess model explainability using tools like SHAP or LIME to understand feature importance and ensure the model’s decisions are interpretable.
    • Validate the model with business stakeholders to ensure the predictions align with operational needs and objectives.
  • Milestone 11: Prepare for Model Deployment
    • Develop scripts and pipelines for integrating the churn prediction model into the production environment.
    • Create a monitoring system to track the model’s performance post-deployment (e.g., retraining schedules, feedback loops).

Month 6: Model Deployment and Final Reporting

  • Milestone 12: Model Deployment
    • Deploy the model to a production environment where it can provide real-time predictions on customer churn.
    • Ensure the model is integrated with customer relationship management (CRM) tools or other business platforms for actionable insights.
  • Milestone 13: Final Reporting and Documentation
    • Prepare comprehensive documentation detailing the model’s development, performance, and deployment.
    • Present a final report summarizing the project’s objectives, milestones, evaluation results, and recommendations for improving customer retention.
  • Milestone 14: Post-Deployment Monitoring and Maintenance
    • Set up a post-deployment monitoring system to track the model’s performance over time.
    • Schedule periodic model evaluations and retraining based on new data and business requirements.
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List hyperparameters for tuning

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Hyperparameters to Consider Tuning for Random Forest Model

  1. Number of Trees (n_estimators)
    • Description: The number of trees in the forest. A higher number of trees typically improves model performance but increases computation time.
    • Tuning Strategy: Start with a default value (e.g., 100) and experiment with higher values (e.g., 200 or 500). Monitor both performance and training time.
  2. Maximum Depth (max_depth)
    • Description: The maximum depth of each tree in the forest. Deeper trees can model more complex relationships but may lead to overfitting.
    • Tuning Strategy: If overfitting occurs, limit the depth. A typical range is between 5 and 50, depending on the dataset.
  3. Minimum Samples Split (min_samples_split)
    • Description: The minimum number of samples required to split an internal node. A larger value prevents the model from learning overly specific patterns and helps reduce overfitting.
    • Tuning Strategy: Larger values (e.g., 10 or 20) prevent the model from creating very small, deep trees. Lower values can increase model complexity.
  4. Minimum Samples Leaf (min_samples_leaf)
    • Description: The minimum number of samples required to be at a leaf node. This parameter helps ensure that leaves are not too specific, improving generalization.
    • Tuning Strategy: Increasing this value can smooth the model and reduce overfitting, while smaller values can allow for more detailed splitting.
  5. Maximum Features (max_features)
    • Description: The number of features to consider when looking for the best split. Limiting the number of features considered at each split can reduce model variance but increase bias.
    • Tuning Strategy: Test values like sqrt (square root of the total features), log2, or an integer value to optimize model accuracy while managing overfitting.
  6. Bootstrap (bootstrap)
    • Description: Whether bootstrap samples (sampling with replacement) are used when building trees. If False, the entire dataset is used for building each tree.
    • Tuning Strategy: Typically set to True, but setting it to False can sometimes improve performance, especially with smaller datasets.
  7. Criterion (criterion)
    • Description: The function to measure the quality of a split. Common options are “gini” (Gini impurity) or “entropy” (information gain).
    • Tuning Strategy: Test both criteria and evaluate model performance. Generally, Gini impurity is faster, but entropy can be more informative in some cases.
  8. Maximum Leaf Nodes (max_leaf_nodes)
    • Description: The maximum number of leaf nodes in the tree. By limiting the number of leaf nodes, the model can become less complex and reduce overfitting.
    • Tuning Strategy: Start with a large number and reduce it to see how performance changes.
  9. Random State (random_state)
    • Description: The seed for random number generation. This ensures reproducibility of results.
    • Tuning Strategy: Generally fixed for reproducibility, but you can try different values to check the stability of the model’s performance.
  10. OOB Score (oob_score)
    • Description: Whether to use out-of-bag samples to estimate the generalization accuracy. This can be a useful method to validate the model without needing a separate validation set.
    • Tuning Strategy: Set to True to enable OOB score, but only if cross-validation is not being used for model evaluation.
  11. Learning Rate (learning_rate) (if using Gradient Boosted Trees or Random Forest variants with boosting)
    • Description: Controls the contribution of each tree to the final prediction. In some variants of Random Forest, like Gradient Boosting, this hyperparameter is critical.
    • Tuning Strategy: Start with a low value (e.g., 0.01 to 0.1) and adjust based on the performance.
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