Credit Card Anomaly Detection using Autoencoders

In this Deep Learning Project, you will use the credit card fraud detection dataset to apply Anomaly Detection with Autoencoders to detect fraud.

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Project Template Outcomes

  • Understanding the problem statement
  • Importing the dataset and importing libraries
  • Performing basic EDA
  • Data cleaning Imputing the null values filling them using the appropriate method
  • Using ggplot to visualize the Dataset
  • Importing h2o library and initializing an h2o cluster
  • Splitting Dataset into Train and Test
  • Defining parameters for training a Neural Network
  • Training the neural network
  • Understanding what is difference between Artificial Neural Networks and Autoencoders
  • How does an Autoencoder work
  • Loading the pre-trained Neural Network
  • How to Autoencode a pre-trained Neural Networks
  • Visualizing the effectiveness of an Autoencoded model and a Neural Networks using ggplot
  • Making predictions using the trained model

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Project Description

What is anomaly detection?

Anomaly detection (aka outlier analysis) is a step in data mining that identifies data points, events, and/or observations that deviate from a dataset’s normal behavior. Anomalous data can indicate critical incidents, such as a technical glitch, or potential opportunities, for instance, a change in consumer behavior.

Applications of Anomaly detection

  • Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) – In the banking sector, some of the use cases for anomaly detection are to flag abnormally high transactions, fraudulent activity, and phishing attacks.

  • Retail – In Retail, anomaly detection is used for processing large volumes of financial transactions to identify fraudulent behaviors, such as identity theft and fraudulent credit card usage.

  • Manufacturing – In Manufacturing, anomaly detection can be used in several important ways, such as identifying machines and tools that are underperforming, which can take months to find without anomaly detection technology.

  • IT and Telecom – In IT and Telecommunications, anomaly detection is increasingly valuable to detect and act on personal threats to users, financial threats to service providers, or other types of unexpected threats.

  • Defense and Government – In the Defence and Government setting, anomaly detection is best used for identifying excessive and fraudulent government spending, budgeting, and audits. This can save governments an immense amount of money.

  • Healthcare – In Health Care, anomaly detection is used for its application in a crucial management task that can improve the quality of the health services and avoid loss of huge amounts of money. In terms of identifying fraudulent claims from hospitals and on the side of the insurance providers.

Tech Stack 

  • Language used: R

  • Machine Learning interface: H2O

  • Other packages used: caret, e1071, ROCR, and many more

Dataset Overview

In this project, we will be using a credit card fraud dataset that represents fraudulent and legal transactions over a certain period. The data is available in a .csv format. In the dataset, we can see that most of the column names (V1 to V28)  are not mentioned explicitly. This is because PCA (Principal Component Analysis)  transformation has been performed on the original dataset to maintain the confidentiality of the data. Apart from these variables, we have a few explicit variables as follows

  1. Time - Difference in seconds between each transaction and its previous transaction

  2. Amount - Transaction Amount

  3. Class 

    1. 0 - Non-fraudulent transaction

    2. 1 - Fraudulent Transaction

Approach

  1. Business context and objective 

  2. Translating into Data Science approach

    1. What, why, where Anomaly Detection?

    2. Why we are using a fraud dataset for this problem

    3. Algorithms used to solve this problem

  3. Data importing and Data Understanding

  4. Data Preprocessing 

    1.  Creating time variable

  5. EDA

  6. Preparing data for modelling

  7. Understanding neural networks and deep neural networks

  8. Understanding Autoencoders 

  9. Unsupervised Learning using h2o

    1. Building model and Model Details

  10. Evaluation parameters understanding

    1. Evaluating based on Reconstructed MSE

  11. Supervised Learning using h2o 

    1. Building and tuning supervised learning model using H2O

  12. Transfer learning 

    1. Supervised Learning using Pretrained model and evaluation

  13. Precision-recall curve

    1. Try different thresholds to improve accuracy

  14. Making production-ready code

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