Predicting Customer Churn for Avast Mobile Using Historical Data

Thesis title: Predicting Customer Churn for Avast Mobile Using Historical Data
Author: Santos Portillo, Hector Jonathan
Thesis type: Diploma thesis
Supervisor: Zimmermann, Pavel
Opponents: Nedvěd, Vojtěch
Thesis language: English
Abstract:
This thesis develops a propensity modeling framework to predict next-day churn among Avast Mobile Security users. Using behavioral, and notification data from the previous 7 days, and historical purchase data. The study trains two machine learning models, Logistic Regression and XGBoost, to generate churn propensity scores. Rather than making binary predictions, the models rank users by their likelihood to churn, enabling Avast to prioritize retention actions on the top 1% most at-risk users.
Keywords: avast; customer churn; propensity
Thesis title: Predicting Customer Churn for Avast Mobile Using Historical Data
Author: Santos Portillo, Hector Jonathan
Thesis type: Diplomová práce
Supervisor: Zimmermann, Pavel
Opponents: Nedvěd, Vojtěch
Thesis language: English
Abstract:
This thesis develops a propensity modeling framework to predict next-day churn among Avast Mobile Security users. Using behavioral, and notification data from the previous 7 days, and historical purchase data. The study trains two machine learning models, Logistic Regression and XGBoost, to generate churn propensity scores. Rather than making binary predictions, the models rank users by their likelihood to churn, enabling Avast to prioritize retention actions on the top 1% most at-risk users.
Keywords: customer churn; propensity; avast

Information about study

Study programme: Information Systems Management/Data and Business
Type of study programme: Magisterský studijní program
Assigned degree: Ing.
Institutions assigning academic degree: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Faculty: Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
Department: Department of Information Technologies

Information on submission and defense

Date of assignment: 30. 10. 2024
Date of submission: 26. 6. 2025
Date of defense: 2025

Files for download

The files will be available after the defense of the thesis.

    Last update: