📖 Project Story — Azure AI Crypto Tracker

🌟 Inspiration

The cryptocurrency market moves at lightning speed — prices can change by 10% or more within hours.
Many investors miss out on opportunities or suffer losses because they react after the market moves.
We wanted to build a tool that could predict market changes, notify users instantly, and provide risk insights so they could make decisions in real time.

📚 What We Learned

• How to use AI anomaly detection to identify unusual price movements.
  
• How real-time data caching improves application performance.
  
• The importance of user feedback loops using analytics tools like heatmaps.
  
• Designing for accessibility with dark mode and intuitive UI flows.

🛠 How We Built It

1. Data Pipeline — Collected live crypto data via a custom pipeline and stored it in SQL for analysis.
   
2. AI Models — Trained predictive models in Azure Machine Learning to forecast short-term price volatility.
   
3. Alerts System — Automated Telegram/WhatsApp alerts using Logic Apps.
   
4. Frontend — Built a responsive React dashboard with risk analysis charts and gamification.
   
5. Deployment — Deployed backend as Azure Functions and frontend as a Static Web App.

🚧 Challenges Faced

• Data Latency: Solved using Azure Cache for Redis to store frequently accessed data.
  
• Deployment Errors: Missing environment variables caused Azure Functions to fail, fixed by configuring app settings.
  
• User Confusion: Microsoft Clarity heatmaps showed users couldn’t find the “Set Alert” button — redesigned UI placement.

📐 A Bit of Math

We used a volatility score formula to detect anomalies:

$$ \text{Volatility Score} = \frac{\sigma_{\text{price}}}{\mu_{\text{price}}} \times 100 $$

Where:

• ( \sigma_{\text{price}} ) = standard deviation of recent prices
  
• ( \mu_{\text{price}} ) = mean of recent prices
  

High scores trigger anomaly alerts.

Built With

• analytics)
• azure-cache-for-redis-**databases:**-azure-sql-database-**apis:**-custom-crypto-price-feed-api-(no-coingecko)
• azure-functions
• azure-static-web-apps
• built-with-**languages:**-python
• chart.js-**cloud-services:**-azure-machine-learning
• clarity
• javascript
• microsoft
• tailwind-css
• telegram-bot-api
• typescript-**frameworks-&-libraries:**-react.js
• visual-studio-code
• whatsapp-cloud-api-**tools-&-platforms:**-github