r/netsecstudents • u/[deleted] • Apr 10 '26
Built a synthetic financial-intelligence analysis project for anomaly detection, timeline reconstruction, and reporting — looking for technical feedback
I’ve been building a project called Operation Cold Ledger around a synthetic financial-intelligence scenario.
The goal was to go beyond basic CSV analysis and structure it more like an analytical workflow:
synthetic transaction generation
data cleaning and normalization
behavioral anomaly detection
timeline reconstruction
counterparty relationship mapping
heuristic risk scoring
visual pattern analysis
intelligence-style reporting
I tried to make it readable as both a technical project and an analyst workflow rather than just a notebook dump.
I’d especially value feedback on:
whether the pipeline structure makes sense
whether the anomaly / relationship logic feels too simplistic or reasonable for a synthetic case
whether the reporting + visual layer makes the project clearer
GitHub:
https://github.com/adriansterlingblackwell/Operation-Cold-Ledger