This week, our team focused on finalizing and presenting the System Level Design Review (SLDR). We worked collaboratively to prepare a comprehensive presentation that showcased our progress and outlined key components of our system. The presentation provided an excellent opportunity to receive feedback, which we documented in a Feedback Memo to guide our next steps. Alongside the presentation, we also revised and refined the SLDR document, ensuring it accurately reflected our current state and plans moving forward.

The Feature Engineering team achieved significant progress by implementing two spatial feature engineering techniques. They explored geospatial grid binning to analyze transaction data within specific geographic regions and began integrating weather data to provide contextual insights based on location. These additions represent a promising direction for enhancing the model’s ability to detect anomalies.

Meanwhile, the UI team revisited and improved several aspects of the interface based on feedback from the PID Day presentation. The updates aimed to create a more intuitive and user-friendly design, ensuring that the dashboard aligns with user needs and expectations. These changes brought us closer to a polished interface that meets the project’s goals.

Next week, the subteams will tackle focused objectives. The Feature Engineering team plans to finalize spatial feature engineering and experiment with clustering techniques to uncover patterns in transaction behavior. The Model Engineering team will refactor the model code to enhance performance and maintainability. The UI team will continue refining the design based on user testing feedback and begin implementing the interface in Angular for improved scalability and responsiveness.

As we wrap up Week 12, we feel proud of the progress we’ve made and the teamwork that has driven these achievements. The journey so far has been a rewarding one, and we look forward to tackling the challenges ahead. Thank you to everyone for your dedication and hard work—here’s to a strong finish in the weeks to come!