The Insurance Company Benchmark (COIL 2000)

Abstract

This data set used in the CoIL 2000 Challenge contains information on customers of an insurance company. The data consists of 86 variables and includes product usage data and socio-demographic data derived from zip area codes. The data was collected to answer the following question: Can you predict who would be interested in buying a caravan insurance policy and give an explanation why?

Information files:

• description of the data
• data dictionary
• regression/description task

Data files:

• ticdata2000.txt Training data. (1M).
• ticeval2000.txt Testing data. (687K).
• tictgts2000.txt Targets for the test data. (12K).
• tic.tar.gz All data files. (264K; 1.7M Uncompressed).