Privacy First Path Analysis Using Clickstream Data

In today’s digital economy data-based decisions have become very important to meet the ev-er-growing needs of customer engagement, retention, and satisfaction. Clickstream data is one such data that is being used to better understand, predict and engage with customers. Unfortu-nately, clickstream data for understanding customers has raised privacy and security concerns with many internet providers selling data for monetary benefits. This paper showcases a meth-odology that is developed based on experiential learning and using the latest cryptographic methods including differential privacy and graph analytics for predicting customer lifetime value (CLV) using clickstream data. Results obtained show that a user’s engagement can be pre-dicted within a relatively acceptable range after preserving privacy.