parser.py

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

def prase_transaction_data(file_path):
  """prase and clean transaction data"""
  df = pd.read_csv(file_path)

  df = df.dropna()
  df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['timestamp']).dt.hour
  df['amount_log'] = np.log1p(df['amount'])
  df['is_high_risk_country'] = df['country'].apply(lambda x: 1 if x in ["Nigeria", "Russia", "China"] else 0)

  return df

def preprocess_for_model(df):
    """Prepare data for fraud detection model"""
    features = ['amount_log', 'hour','is_high_risk_country','merchant_category']
    X = df[features]
    y = df.get('fraud_label', None)

    #One-hot encode category
    X = pd.get_dummies(X,columns=['merchant_category'],drop_first=True)

    #Normalize
    scaler = StandardScaler()
    X_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(X)

    return X_scaled, y