Fulusi : Tanzania Financial Market Insights Platform
## About Fulusi ๐
Fulusi is a project that aims to build financial awareness on the Tanzania Finance Market with focus on Bank Forex Exchange rates , Stock Markets ( Dar es Salaam Stock Market ), Government Mutual Funds ( UTT AMIS ), Watumishi Housing Fund , Government Bonds and Corporate Bonds. Ideally an information platform that provides live data , shows trend on the growth of foreign currencies , stocks and mutual funds to help Tanzanian citizens to invest.
## The Why ๐ค๐ญ?
According to the recent Tanzania CENSUS survey , 1% of Tanzanians invest in the stock market compared to 4% in Kenya , the rate is similar in other investment instruments including bonds , mutual funds and foreign exchanges. I believe with this platfom citizens can get live data and monitor how different instruments perform and invest.
Source : _Individual Investors' Awareness and Participation in the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, Tanzania_
## The Roadmap ๐ฃ๏ธ
- [x] Collecting Live Data
- [x] Building the UI and UX of the platform
- [x] Implementing User Authentication
- [x] visualizing data collected in table format
- [x] Design database to store all scrapped data
- [x] Design APIs to retrieve data from the database
- [x] Collecting and storing data in a database.
- [ ] Visualize growth across time (Will need collection for atleast 3 months)
- [x] Able to compare forex prices in banks and suggest the cheapest bank to do exchange.
- [ ] Predict how the investment instruments will perform though machine learning models.
- [ ] Chatbot that will use both native language swahili and english to provide updates.
## How to get started ๐!
## Prerequisites
- Python > 3.8 ๐๐พHow to download and Install Python
- pip latest version ๐๐พInstalling Pip lates Version
- git ๐๐พDownload Git
- IDE i.e ๐๐พVS Code
### NB
- The project is built on Ubuntu OS ( 24.04 ), but can be run on Windows and MacOs
## Steps to get started on Ubuntu 24.04
1. Fork the repository ๐๐พ Click here to Fork !
2. Clone the forked r โฆ