Generate Fake Credit Card Transaction Data, Including Fraudulent Transactions

General Usage

• Create customers data file (see generate_customers.bat for syntax)
• Create transactions, utilizing prior customer file (see various .sh/.bat for syntax)

This code is heavily modified, but based on original code by Josh Plotkin. Change log of modifications to original code are below.

Modifications:

v 0.4

• Only surface-level changes done in scripts so that simulation can be done using Python3
• Corrected bat files to generate transactions files.

v 0.3

• Completely re-worked profiles / segementation of customers
• introduced fraudulent transactions
• introduced fraudulent profiles
• modification of transaction amount generation via Gamma distribution
• added 150k_ shell scripts for multi-threaded data generation (one python process for each segment launched in the background)

v 0.2

• Added unix time stamp for transactions for easier programamtic evaluation.
• Individual profiles modified so that there is more variation in the data.
• Modified random generation of age/gender. Original code did not appear to work correctly?
• Added batch files for windows users

v 0.1

• Transaction times are now included instead of just dates
• Profile specific spending windows (AM/PM with weighting of transaction times)
• Merchant names (specific to spending categories) are now included (along with code for generation)
• Travel probability is added, with profile specific options
• Travel max distances is added, per profile option
• Merchant location is randomized based on home location and profile travel probabilities
• Simulated transaction numbers via faker MD5 hash (replacing sequential 0..n numbering)
• Includes credit card number via faker
• improved cross-platform file path compatibility