Learners will be able to prepare telecom customer data, apply feature engineering techniques, and build a structured dataset for churn prediction using R. By completing this course, learners gain practical skills in encoding categorical variables, scaling numerical features, selecting optimal model parameters, and organizing datasets for machine learning workflows.

Apply R Techniques for Telecom Customer Churn Prediction

Apply R Techniques for Telecom Customer Churn Prediction
This course is part of Apply R for Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Specialization

Instructor: EDUCBA
Access provided by ExxonMobil
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What you'll learn
Prepare and transform telecom customer data for churn prediction using R.
Apply feature engineering techniques including encoding, scaling, and variable selection.
Build structured, machine-learning-ready datasets for reliable churn model evaluation.
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February 2026
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There are 2 modules in this course
This module introduces telecom customer churn prediction and focuses on preparing raw customer data for modeling in R. Learners explore essential preprocessing techniques such as encoding categorical variables, scaling numerical features, and determining the optimal value of K for distance-based machine learning algorithms to ensure reliable and accurate churn predictions.
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5 videos3 assignments
This module focuses on transforming and structuring telecom customer data for effective churn prediction. Learners practice feature engineering techniques such as variable selection, dummy variable creation, dataset splitting, and dimensionality reduction to prepare a clean, efficient dataset for model training and evaluation.
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