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Customer Response to Usage Based Insurance An Analysis of Social Media Sentiments Nick Kucera February 25, 2014 Nick Kucera

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Page 1: Customer Response to UBI 2014-02-25Customer Complaints • Considerations Complaint – Behavior modification Starting Test Testing Customer Total – Customer opinion – Feedback

Customer Response to Usage Based InsuranceAn Analysis of Social Media Sentiments

Nick KuceraFebruary 25, 2014

Nick Kucera

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Discussion

Social Media in General

Long term potential

Twitter Data

Analysis results

Conclusions

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The Growth in Social Media

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Social Media Platforms

I need to eat

I have fiveI ate

This is where I ate

I have five connections that recommend me because I eat so

llate

Why am I eating?

well

This is a review of where I ate Let’s all eat

t th

Watch me eat

together

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Is the Industry Taking Advantage of Social Media?

• Insurance companies are investing significant resources in a social media presence

• Current and potential customers are voluntarily sharing intimate details of their life with the world

• Current and potential customers are interacting with• Current and potential customers are interacting with companies on a very personal level

• This information can be applied in different ways (service, marketing, competitive monitoring)

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Twitter Data

• Twitter data ‐ over 3 million insurance total tweets from January, 2012 to present (Keyword 

• Advantages of social media data

y p yof Allstate, State Farm, Geico, etc.)

• Data– Content of the tweet

– Unfiltered– Broad view of non‐

customer reactionso e o e ee– Specific tweet recipient– Sender of the tweet

Language of tweet

– Facilitates more timely analysis of trends

– Language of tweet– Where the tweet originated– Link to a picture of user

“This new world will– Latitude and longitude of the 

user– Date and time of tweet

This new world will undermine the polling 

industry” Fabio Rojas. How Twitter can help 

d l

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predict an election

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Text Mining Data Processing

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Data Processing Steps

• Remove punctuation and symbols (retain @ and #)

• Parse the tweet (35 words worked for Twitter – will need many more for other 

Tweet ID

User Tweet Word1 Word2 … Word35

1 @mosley Text of tweet

W1 W2 … W35

ysources)

• Change table structures f ifrom tweets in rows to tweets in columns – keep indicator of order

Tweet ID Word Order Word1 1 Word11 2 Word2… … …1 35 Word35

• Correct spelling errors• Add word indicators

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GEICO Top 10 Keywords

9 3%9.1%8.9%

piglike

commercials

GEICO Keywords

20.0%14.2%

11.2%10.6%10.5%

9.3%

commercialinsurance

moneyswitching

carpig

93.4%31.3%

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%

geicort

Percentage of Tweets

• Advertising (commercial, pig, commercials)• Brand recognition (“Saved money by switching car insurance”)• Sharing component significant (rt 31%)• Sharing component significant (rt 31%)

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Analysis – Identifying Themes in the Data

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Analysis – Identifying Themes in the Data

• Clustering/Segmentation– Unsupervised classification techniquep q– Groups data into set of discrete clusters or contiguous groups of cases

– Objects in each cluster tend to be similar, objects in different clusters tend to be dissimilar

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Keywords – State Farm

Cluster #Number of 

Tweets Category Keywords Description1 1,491              sponsorship around hit miss play run Home Run Derby2 3,778              sponsorship anyone college comes kids lebron College Sports Sponsorships3 1,198              advertising business music win Music Festivals, Music Download6 2,762              competition care cool funny much nationwide pretty Comparisons with Nationwide7 4,689              sponsorship another around football looks lost packers week Football sponsorships, Packers, Hish School Football8 1,260              advertising couple help jingle million nobody nothing remember sDo the jingle9 1,080              advertising another long named pretty talk wife woman Jake from State Farm, woman singing "Waterfall"10 5,142              advertising aaron came check discount double giants lost maybe p Discount Double Check, Packers12 1,217              quotes buy coverage insurance month quote start State Farm Marketing, Insurance Quotes15 471                  advertising discounts drive insurance less through Discounts19 1,000              sports discounts giants hanging less more packers spent time Packers & Giants20 2,941              competition change having same Changing Insurance Companies25 2,414              marketing about care don florida insurance kids rates Great rates26 45                    advertising accident another anyone anything believe commercial French model27 1,152              claims claims customers emergency help lost nationwide sandHurricane Sandy

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Analysis – Identifying Themes in the Data

• Clustering/Segmentation– Unsupervised classification technique– Groups data into set of discrete clusters or contiguous groups of casesObjects in each cluster tend to be similar objects in– Objects in each cluster tend to be similar, objects in different clusters tend to be dissimilar

• Association Analysisy– Identification of items that occur together in the same record

– Can lead to sequence analysis as well, which considers timing and ordering of events

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Long Term Potential of UBI 

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Long Term Potential of UBI

1 million

107 million

Significant Market

PotentialPotential

20%

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“But Wait…” ‐ Glen Renwick, CEO of Progressive

“Intellectually…” “Surveys of Prospective Snapshot Users”

"Yeah

p

Yeah, why not?"30%"No way

in hell"40%

"Take

"Maybe, I need to

kSnapshot Option"100%

know more"30%

“Getting consumers to engage in a product that they were never asked to engage i [hi t i ll ] i bi b d i t ll t ll th ld h d ”

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in [historically] is a bigger burden intellectually than we would have assumed.”

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Snapshot Data

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Twitter Data Subset

• Keyword searches for terms “Progressive” and “Snapshot” (3 400 tweets from September

• Advantages of social media data

(3,400 tweets from September 2012 to June 2013)

• Data

– Unfiltered– Broad view of non‐

customer reactions– Content of the tweet– Specific tweet recipient– Sender of the tweet

– Facilitates more timely analysis of trends

– Language of tweet– Where the tweet originated

Link to a picture of user– Link to a picture of user– Latitude and longitude of the 

userD t d ti f t t

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– Date and time of tweet

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Analysis Process

• Analysis– Text mining– Review of individual tweets

• Categorization of tweetsStatus of user– Status of user

– Sentiment of the tweet– Positive feedback– Misconceptions– Customer complaints

P i i– Premium savings

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Snapshot Analysis Results

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Customer Status

Snapshot customer16%

Status

16%

Do not have snapshot48%

Being Monitored26%

Just received snapshot, just starting

the test

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the test10%

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Sentiment of Comment

Tone

31%90%

100%

Tone by User Status

Positive26%

30%7%

62%

31%

60%

35%

60%

70%

80%

of T

wee

ts

58%25%

30%

10%30%

40%

50%

Perc

enta

ge o

Negative55%

12%

39%29%

0%

10%

20%

Do not have

Just received

Being Monitored

Snapshot customerNeutral

19%have

Snapshotreceived

Snapshot, just starting

the test

Monitored customer

Status

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Positive Neutral Negative

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Non‐Customer Negative Responses

0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0%Percent of Tweets

Non-Customer Negative Responses“im waiting for someone to leak documents showing that the #nsa can track people w/ 

th i h t thi ”

23.4%Privacy

the progressive snapshot thing”

18.2%Misunderstanding of Program

14.1%Rate Can Go Up

13.4%Concerned About Potential Results

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Customer Positive Responses

• Price change vs. additional services

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%Percent of Tweets

Customer Positive Responses

• Customer validation• Some consumers like data76%Savings

14%Excitement

6%Tracking

“I'm liking Progressive's SnapShot device ‐not 'cause it'll lower my rates but 'cause it 

tells me when I've done something I

4%Better Driving

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tells me when I ve done something I shouldn't have.”

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Customer Complaints

• Considerations– Behavior modificationComplaint

Starting Test Testing Customer Total

– Customer opinion– Feedback timing– Context

Driving Habits 34% 23% 16% 23%

Beeping 3% 21% 10% 16%Snapshot Evaluation 1% 20% 12% 15% – Context

– Negative reinforcement

Evaluation 1% 20% 12% 15%

Annoying 21% 13% 10% 14%

Premium Change 3% 10% 16% 10%

“Listen, Progressive Snapshot. You & I

Installation 28% 1% 0% 4%

will NEVER agree on what a ‘hard brake’ is & no amount of beeping is gonna

change that. #justsayin”

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Reported Snapshot Discount

%0%5% 0%100%

ry

Reported Snapshot Discount by Tone

45 45

50

Reported Snapshot Discount

0%

2%

35%

17%%

60%

70%

80%

90%

Dis

coun

t Cat

egor

2930

35

40

45

ets

50%

83%93%

100%15%

92%

30%

40%

50%

60%

ntag

e fo

r Eac

h D

20

29 26

20

25

30

Num

ber o

f Tw

ee

0%

50%

8%0%

10%

20%

Zero Less than 10%

10% to 19%

20% to 29%

30% and G t

Tone

Per

cen

12

5

10

15

10% 19% 29% GreaterReported Discount

Positive Neutral Negative

-Zero Less than

10%10% to 19%

20% to 29%

30% and Greater

Reported Discount

“Just got an email that I'm getting a 7% discount on my auto “I've had the Progressive snapshot plugged in to my car

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Just got an email that I m getting a 7% discount on my auto insurance after having that Snapshot thing. That's pretty 

@Progressive. ;).”

I ve had the Progressive snapshot plugged in to my car to record my driving and get a discount. Out of 30% I only 

got 2%. I suck.”

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Conclusion

• UBI is here to stay, and will be a game‐changer• UBI has the potential for significant growth• Potential growth will not be achieved, however, without 

listening closely to the voice of the customer• Ultimatel it ill help create a more positi e c stomer• Ultimately, it will help create a more positive customer 

experience and improve the potential for UBI long‐term

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Customer Response to Usage Based Insurance

Nicholas Kucera630.457.1293

[email protected]

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