University of North Texas
Predicting Credit Card Fraud with R
University of North Texas

Predicting Credit Card Fraud with R

Taught in English

John Garcia

Instructor: John Garcia

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1.5 hours
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4.4

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What you'll learn

  • Use R to identify fraudulent credit card transactions with a variety of classification methods.

  • Create, train, and evaluate decision tree, naïve Bayes, and Linear discriminant analysis classification models using R

  • Generate synthetic samples to improve the performance of your models.

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Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1.5 hours
Learn at your own pace
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Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.4

(31 reviews)

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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Task 1: Explore why imbalanced datasets are problematic for classification algorithms.

  2. Task 2: Use R to explore a dataset.

  3. Task 3: Create random testing and training datasets using the caret package in R.

  4. Task 4: Use R to synthetically balance your training dataset using three techniques from the smotefamily package.

  5. Task 5: Train three classification algorithms (decision tree, naïve Bayes, and linear discriminant analysis) using the natively imbalanced dataset, and generate the predictions for the test dataset.

  6. Task 6: Use R to visually compare your models using the recall, precision, and F measure classification accuracy metrics.

Recommended experience

Familiarity with data analysis and using R.

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John Garcia
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