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Understanding Player Engagement and In-Game Purchasing Behavior with Ensemble Learning
Anna Guitart, Ana Fernández del Río, África Periáñez
As video games attract more and more players, the major challenge for game studios is to retain them. We present a deep behavioral analysis of churn (game abandonment) and what we…
Profiling Players with Engagement Predictions
Ana Fernández del Río, Pei Pei Chen, África Periáñez
The possibility of using player engagement predictions to profile high spending video game users is explored. In particular, individual-player survival curves in terms of days afte…
From Non-Paying to Premium: Predicting User Conversion in Video Games with Ensemble Learning
Anna Guitart, Shi Hui Tan, Ana Fernández del Río +2
Retaining premium players is key to the success of free-to-play games, but most of them do not start purchasing right after joining the game. By exploiting the exceptionally rich d…
The Winning Solution to the IEEE CIG 2017 Game Data Mining Competition
Anna Guitart, Pei Pei Chen, África Periáñez
Machine learning competitions such as those organized by Kaggle or KDD represent a useful benchmark for data science research. In this work, we present our winning solution to the…