NairoKE/kenya-cost-of-living-dashboard
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socioeconomicCreator:
Nai
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Live cost of living tracker for Kenya with economic indicators analysis and price prediction (Work in Progress)
# 🇰🇪 Kenya Cost of Living Dashboard
**⚠️ Work in Progress ⚠️**
An interactive dashboard built with Streamlit and advanced machine learning models to provide **live cost of living analysis** for essential goods across major retailers in Kenya. This project is designed to track real-time price changes and their correlation with economic indicators, tax policies, and inflation rates.
## 🎯 Project Vision
This program aims to become a comprehensive tool that can:
- **Provide live cost of living data** for various staple goods across Kenya
- **Track and analyze** the impact of tax changes, inflation rates, and economic indicators on consumer prices
- **Predict price fluctuations** based on economic policy changes and market conditions
- **Monitor** the purchasing power of Kenyan consumers in real-time
- **Enable data-driven decision making** for consumers, policymakers, and businesses
The ultimate goal is to create a predictive system that can anticipate how changes in economic policy, taxation, and global economic conditions will affect the day-to-day cost of living for Kenyan families.
## ✨ Features
- **Real-time Price Tracking**
- Automated daily price scraping from major retailers:
- Carrefour
- Naivas
- Quickmart
- Chandarana Foodplus
- Track essential items (milk, bread, sugar, etc.)
- Compare prices across different stores
- **Advanced Analytics**
- Price trend visualization
- Store-wise price comparison
- Price volatility analysis
- Interactive price forecasting with:
- Inflation adjustments
- Election period impacts
- Tax change effects
- Combined economic factors
- **Economic Indicators**
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) tracking
- Inflation rate impact analysis
- Historical election period analysis (2017, 2022)
- Tax change impact predictions
- Combined economic factor modeling
- **Event Impact Analysis**
- Election period price trends (2027 forecast)
- Tax change impact tracking
- Holiday season price variations
- Historical shock detection
- Confidence …