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P07Applied Prediction and Automation
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Fraud detection
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PayNimbus is a payment gateway that processed 79,991 card transactions last month. 799 of them were fraud - one in a hundred, high for the industry and normal for a young gateway with a risky merchant mix. The review team can open 1,200 alerts a month. The existing rules engine raises 5,968.
What is in it
- 13 teaching steps, one animation each
- 26 labs, checked live against the case data
- 65 step questions, every option explained
- 20 final paper questions, marked on submission
The steps
- 1Eighty thousand payments, 1,200 reviews
- 2Where the fraud label comes from
- 3What a 1% base rate does to every number you know 2 labs
- 4What you know in two hundred milliseconds
- 5The model that agrees with the rules engine
- 6The rules engine you are replacing
- 7Train on three weeks, test on the fourth
- 8How deep to work the queue
- 9What the analyst actually sees
- 10Week four: they changed
- 11Responding without over-reacting
- 12The monitoring pack
- 13Blocking somebody's card