Industrial Engineering MS Thesis Defense by Çağan Ürküp



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KOÇ UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCES & ENGINEERING

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

MS THESIS DEFENSE BY ÇAĞAN ÜRKÜP

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Title: Analysis of the Relation Between Mobility Signatures and Product Usage of

Bank Customers for Product Recommendation Systems

 

Speaker: Çağan Ürküp

 

Time: 07/09/2017, 15:00

 

Place: Eng 127

Koç University

Rumeli Feneri Yolu

Sariyer, Istanbul

Thesis Committee Members:

Assoc. Prof. Sibel Salman (Advisor, Koc University)

Assoc. Prof. Özden Gür Ali (Koc University)

Prof. Burcin Bozkaya (Sabanci University)

Abstract:

Conventional financial decision support systems are based on distinct individual

attributes like gender, marital status, age and occupation, while being unaware of the habits or

spatio-temporal mobility of the individuals. The rapid growth of mobile payment and geo-

aware systems, and the emergence big data, present the opportunity to investigate human

consumption patterns across space and time. With this opportunity, we analyze a 1 year

transaction data of one of the largest banks in Türkiye to seek the relation between mobility

behaviors and product usage patterns for Individual Consumer Loan and Retirement Savings

products. After turning the raw data into a useful format with various data preprocessing

techniques, we filter the customers who provide more information in terms of mobility.

Afterwards, in order to evaluate the product recommendation model in different

circumstances, we divide the data into different scenarios with respect to the last 3 months’

product usage pattern, data time period, demographic, financial and mobility features. After

obtaining the best feature selection methods and classification algorithms for each dataset

independently, we analyze the results and discover interesting product usage patterns and

customer characteristics about selected products.