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Machine Learning for Finance

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Finance Principles and practice for financial insiders

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136364
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jannes Klaas Jannes Klaas
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Machine Learning for Finance
Contributors
Preface
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The data


The dataset we will work with is a synthetic dataset of transactions generated by a payment simulator. The goal of this case study and the focus of this chapter is to find fraudulent transactions within a dataset, a classic machine learning problem many financial institutions deal with.

Note

Note: Before we go further, a digital copy of the code, as well as an interactive notebook for this chapter are accessible online, via the following two links:

An interactive notebook containing the code for this chapter can be found under https://www.kaggle.com/jannesklaas/structured-data-code

The code can also be found on GitHub, in this book's repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Machine-Learning-for-Finance

The dataset we're using stems from the paper PaySim: A financial mobile money simulator for fraud detection, by E. A. Lopez-Rojas, A. Elmir, and S. Axelsson. The dataset can be found on Kaggle under this URL: https://www.kaggle.com/ntnu-testimon/paysim1.

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Machine Learning for Finance
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