Exploratory data analysis on a lending club to determine the root causes of borrowers getting defaulted.
- 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.
- Importing data
- Data cleaning and evolution
- Analysis
- Conclusion
- 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.
- Pandas - 2.0.3
- Matplotlib - version 3.7
- Seaborn - version 0.12
- Numpy - version 1.25.0
- Numpy official site.
- Seaborn Official site.
- Pandas Official site
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