How to Use Mobile Activity Logs to Understand Our Customers (Aaron Colcord & Kevin Mellott)

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Channel: Databricks · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Aaron Colcord is the Director of Engineering, serving FIS Global’s big data initiative within its Digital Finance Division. Kevin Mellott is a Team Lead and Spark Data Developer at FIS, working to improve the data processing pipeline of one of the world's largest FinTech companies. 

We developed an algorithm to examine the user’s workflow so we can perform near real-time analysis of their online activities. We leverage Spark’s Structured Streaming, ML Pipelines & GraphFrames, and good old fashioned grit to gain insights that allow us to improve our mobile app. For good measure, we added fraud detection to the mix so we can use artificial intelligence to detect any strange or alarming patterns.

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