Sponsored by: Shape Security

Abstract

Shape Security is a cybersecurity company that provides solutions that reduce bots, fraud, and unwanted automation. To assist its data scientists to better understand bots and fraud, Shape has developed multiple data visualization tools such as VizMonkey. VizMonkey transforms collected user input signal data in a transaction into a visualization; this enables its users to provide quick manual analysis of a specific transaction. However, Vizmonkey lacked the ability to visualize much of the data Shape has and lacks features that would be helpful for the expanded scope of its use. Thus, our goal was to develop a new version of Vizmonkey which was more user friendly, had better representations of the data for non-experts, and was able to display all the data Shape collects about user events. After two months of design, development, and testing, we showed the new tool to the team that will directly use it at Shape and iterated over received feedback. The new Vizmonkey should help Shape perform manual analysis more quickly and easily and produce better protection for customers' websites.

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