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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

by Imran Ahmad
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Presenting the watchtower fraud analytics methodology

The previous, simple fraud analytics technique has the following two limitations:

  • It does not evaluate the importance of each vertex in the social network. A connection to a hub that is involved in fraud may have different implications than a relationship with a remote, isolated person.

  • When labeling someone as a known case of fraud in an existing network, we do not consider the severity of the crime.

The watchtower fraud analytics methodology addresses these two limitations. First, let's look at a couple of concepts.

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ISBN: 9781789801217