Reducing Churn in E-Commerce: My End-to-End Capstone Project in Predictive Modeling
Customer churn isn’t just a marketing problem - it’s a business survival issue. In competitive industries like e-commerce, losing one customer often means losing several revenue streams, especially when one account can represent multiple users. This post is a breakdown of my churn prediction capstone project for the postgraduate data science program at UT Austin - also tied to my master’s in data science at Deakin U. The project was closed-source, so I can’t release the full notebook, but I’ll walk you through everything I did including code snippets, results, charts, what I learned, and where this project fits in my larger journey into machine learning and MLOps. ...