Dashboards and alarms Simple fraud detection

244. Simple fraud detection

This exercise is based on theLive dataset.

This exercise is a prequel to SQL alarms and outlier events detection.

This time we’ll look at detecting fraudulent payments. A good example is bad affiliate partnerships– a company agrees on a revenue share with a partner that promotes our product. Sometimes partners cheat and purchase our product themselves, then refund and hope that we won’t notice and pay them their “revenue share”.

👉 Your job today is to find a day in the past 30 days with the highest percentage of refunded purchases.

⚠ Only consider dates that have at least 5 purchases...

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