vedantmahabaleshwarkar/fraud-detection

Fraud Detection with Red Hat OpenShift Data Science

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science is a managed cloud service for data scientists and developers of intelligent applications. It provides a fully supported environment in which to rapidly develop, train, and test machine learning (ML) models in the public cloud before deploying in production.

The content in this repository describes how to use OpenShift Data Science to train and test a relatively simplistic fraud detection model. In exploring this content, you will become familiar with the OpenShift Data Science offering and common workflows to use with it.

Access OpenShift Data Science

In order to use the content in this repository, you need to already have access to an OpenShift Data Science environment. If that is not the case, you can sign-up for a free 30-days "sandbox" environment by going to the sandbox URL and signing up. If you are using the "sandbox" environment, some of the instructions will differ slightly, but they will be explicitely stated when that is the case.

Using the access credentials provided to you, log into the OpenShift Data Science portal by following the ODS Dashboard link.

Use the Username and Password details you were provided. When you see the Authorize Access page, click the Allow selected permissions button. These permissions are allowing the ODH Dashboard application to interact with the cluster as if it were your user (for the purpose of automations). This is a common paradigm with OpenShift and Kubernetes.

Launch Jupyter Hub

OpenShift Data Science makes extensive use of Jupter Hub, a project that enables users to quickly and easily launch Jupyter Notebooks to conduct data and feature engineering, experimentation, model training, and testing.

From the OpenShift Data Science Dashboard page, click the Jupyter Hub link. Use the same credentials that you used to access the OpenShift Data Science portal. Each application has its own Service Account for interacting with OpenShift, so they all need authorization acess.

Launch a Notebook

When you first access Jupyter Hub, you will see a configuration screen that asks you which notebook image to use as the base for your project, as well as for some other details.

1. Ensure that Standard Data Science is selected for the notebook image. You may not see any other images listed, and that's OK. Just make sure to select Standard Data Science.

2. Make sure that you change the container size to SMALL. If you do not change it, your lab will for sure blow up between notebooks 2 and 3, or many other times. You need more memory for your lab, so be sure to choose SMALL. The default size does not have enough memory. Do not choose larger sizes, as you will likely either fail to ever get a lab notebook, or you will interrupt the other user's experiences.

Once you have made the correct selections indicated above, click Start Server.

Clone Git Repository

Once your notebook container is launched, at the left-hand side of the notebook console is a Git icon.

Click the Git icon and then click Clone a Repository.

In the window that pops up, copy the Git URL for this repository and paste it into the box:

https://github.com/OpenShiftDemos/rhods-fraud-detection.git

Then, click CLONE.

In the file browser, you will now see a folder for the repository that was cloned.

Open the Notebook

At this point you should double-click on the rhods-fraud-detection folder in the file explorer, and then double-click on the 00-getting-started.ipynb notebook file. Begin to follow the instructions in that notebook.