Indonesian Journal of Business Analytics (IJBA)
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): April, 2021

A Telemarketing Guidance in Selling Banking Services: A Data Mining Approach

Kattareeya Prompreing (Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Apr 2022

Abstract

In telemarketing activity, selecting the most potential customers are important because can reduce processing time and operational cost. Therefore, the ability to select the most likely buying customers are urgently needed. In this study, we propose a clear sequence in doing telemarketing activity based on the previous telemarketing data which applying data mining technique. We weight the importance of 16 customer characteristics through 45,211 observations from a Portuguese bank. Applying Random Forest algorithm along with Information Gain Ratio as a criterion and 10-fold Cross Validation, the model able to weight the importance of attributes and achieves 90.01 % accuracy in predicting telemarketing success. Furthermore, the rank of attribute importance was designed to be a guidance map in selecting potential targeted customers as a managerial implication.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijba

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Indonesian Journal of Business Analytics (IJBA) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a space for both practitioners and academics for disseminating research results that work in Business Analytics and related fields. IJBA provides an outlet for the increasing flow of interdisciplinary research ...