capstone5–8 weeks~4h mentor timeLive defense
Real-Time Fraud Detection Pipeline
Streaming features, a model under a 50ms budget, and an honest evaluation on heavily imbalanced data.
By DataWicket
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The brief
Streaming features, a model under a 50ms budget, and an honest evaluation on heavily imbalanced data. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.
Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.
Milestones & mentor checkpoints
1Streaming featuresweek 1mentor review
2Model & thresholdweek 3mentor review
3Serving under budgetweek 6mentor review
How you're graded
Correctness
40% weight
Scalability
30% weight
Code quality
30% weight