This week, our Verifone project team had a major milestone: we visited Verifone headquarters in Clearwater, FL, to present our Product Design Review (PDR) and receive new datasets directly from the company. This visit was a significant opportunity to showcase our progress and gather insights from Verifone’s engineering team. During our PDR presentation, we focused on demonstrating the technical groundwork we’ve laid across multiple project areas—feature engineering, model engineering, and UI development. The feedback we received will be invaluable as we move forward, allowing us to better align with Verifone’s goals and expectations.
Prior to our visit, we dedicated our weekly team meeting to finalizing the PDR presentation. We refined each team’s work for clarity and cohesion, ensuring that our presentation clearly conveyed our objectives, progress, and next steps. The feedback session at Verifone helped us identify key areas for improvement and sparked new ideas for refining our project’s direction.
Our Feature Engineering team made great strides in exploratory data analysis (EDA) this week, conducting deep dives into the dataset and identifying potential features that could enhance our model’s performance. During our Verifone visit, they received valuable feedback from the liaison engineer, who provided insights on the feasibility and alignment of our feature engineering ideas. Our Model Engineering team worked on streamlining the testing pipeline and extending the ensemble model, contributing to both efficiency and accuracy in anomaly detection. The team also performed EDA to support future model development with the new data provided by Verifone. Meanwhile, our UI team created an interactive prototype of the graphical user interface (GUI) for the anomaly detection dashboard. This prototype reflects our commitment to designing a user-friendly and visually clear interface, which we presented as part of our PDR.
Looking ahead, our plan for the coming week is to incorporate the PDR feedback into our project approach. Each subteam will have dedicated objectives: the Feature Engineering team will continue EDA and begin implementing their new feature ideas with the updated data. The Model Engineering team will focus on implementing extensions for the ensemble model. We also have specific action items for our liaison engineers, who will review potential feature engineering avenues and provide ongoing feedback to keep us on track.
Overall, this week has been a rewarding experience. Presenting at Verifone and meeting our liaison engineers face-to-face gave us fresh perspectives and strengthened our resolve to meet the project’s goals. We’re looking forward to taking these next steps with renewed purpose. Goodbye for now, and thank you for following our journey!