Companies such as e-commerce rely on Churn Modeling to identify customers that are likely to churn. Once identified, the company decides on a follow up action - a discount or a commercial - to hopefully retain those customers. Unfortunately, Churn models do not allow companies to assess whether or not their action is effective.

Uplift Modeling was designed to remedy this shortcoming by directly inferring the effect of an action on customers' retention.

For the next New York User Group Event, Jean-Yves Gerardy (Technical Support Engineer at Dataiku) will introduce the basics of Uplift Modeling, that is the requirements needed to train an uplift model, the types of models available (with a focus on S-learners) and the type of metrics used to evaluate the performance of such models. 

Be sure to join the New York User Group to be informed of upcoming events and chat with fellow DSS users based in New York!

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