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Which Credit Score Band Is This Customer In?

From income, accounts, loans, payment delays and debt, is this customer's credit score poor, standard or good? A consistent band helps a lender decide who to offer what.

Use caseFinancePredictionModel evaluation

The table

Customer records with income, number of accounts and cards, loans, payment delays and outstanding debt, and a credit score band. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Credit Score Classification, 100,000 rows by 28 columns, licensed CC0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.46. At 100,000 rows and 27 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 4,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.

Walkthrough

  1. Load it from the catalogue

    Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.

    import pandas as pd
    from welt import Client
    
    with Client() as client:
        item = client.research_datasets(q="credit score classification", limit=1)["items"][0]
        info = client.research_dataset(item["id"])
        data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"])
    
    target = info["targets"][0]
    target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target
    print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)
  2. Pick the rows

    Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 4,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.

    known = data.dropna(subset=[target])
    new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1)
    table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(4000, random_state=7)
  3. Compare the models and predict

    The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.

    with Client() as client:
        evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7,
                                     models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"])
        model = evaluation.fit()
    
    print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]])
    features = new_rows.drop(columns=target)
    print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features),
                        "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))

What you get

A band per customerPoor, standard or good, with a probability.
Consistent decisionsThe same method for every applicant.
Large tables handledA seeded sample keeps the run within the model limits.

Try it

Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "credit score classification", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".