Predicting Loan Repayment for LendingClub

Overview:

This project aims to develop a machine learning model to forecast users' ability to repay loans on time, leveraging historical data from LendingClub. The company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, pioneered peer-to-peer lending and is recognized for registering its offerings as securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), along with introducing loan trading on a secondary market.

Key Steps:

1. Data Preparation: Load and clean historical data, ensuring it's suitable for analysis.
2. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Gain insights into data distribution, correlations, and patterns.
3. Model Training: Split data into training and testing sets; train Decision Tree and Random Forest models.
4. Parameter Tuning: Optimize model parameters to enhance performance.
5. Evaluation: Assess model accuracy using testing data; calculate accuracy scores.
6. Handling Overfitting and Underfitting: Apply techniques to address these issues and ensure model generalization.

Results:

• Decision Tree and Random Forest models demonstrated the highest accuracy scores and effective prediction capabilities.
• The models offer valuable insights for LendingClub, aiding in creditworthiness assessment and informed lending decisions.

Next Steps:

• Continuously monitor and update models with new data.
• Explore additional features and algorithms to further improve prediction accuracy and robustness.

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