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lending-club-case-study

Exploratory data analysis on a lending club to determine the root causes of borrowers getting defaulted.

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General Information

  • Lending Club is a consumer finance company which specialises in lending various types of loans to urban customers.
  • It offers different types of loan products such as personal loans, business loans, and financing of medical procedures.
  • Borrowers can easily access lower-interest rate loans through a fast online interface.
  • There are borrowers who pay their loan fully and borrowers who don't pay and gets default.
  • Lending Club wants to understand the driving factors behind the loan getting default and steps to reduce it.

Steps to perform EDA

  1. Importing data
  2. Data cleaning and evolution
  3. Analysis
  4. Conclusion

Conclusions

  • Lending club growth has increased year by year at almost a double rate.
  • Majority of the loan terms are for 36 months - approximately 75% of borrowers opted for this term.
  • Majority of the borrowers have paid their loans with around 15% defaulted it.
  • Borrowers with not verified sources have gotten more loan amounts.
  • The median of the loan amount taken by the borrowers is 10000 while there are some outliers.
  • Borrowers with 60 months loan term have defaulted more than borrowers with 36 months.
  • Borrowers with lower grades are getting more loan amounts than borrowers with high grades.
  • Higher interest rates result in more defaults than lower interest rates.
  • Interest is also increasing as the borrower's grades are decreasing.
  • Default rate is increasing exponentially as the grades are lowering.

Technologies Used

  • Pandas - 2.0.3
  • Matplotlib - version 3.7
  • Seaborn - version 0.12
  • Numpy - version 1.25.0

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Created by [@shaikh-shahid] - feel free to contact me!

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