Machine learning project using Kenya FinAccess data to predict, explain and map financial exclusion risk.
# Kenya Financial Inclusion Risk Prediction
Machine learning project using Kenya FinAccess 2021 survey data to predict, explain, and assess financial exclusion risk among Kenyan adults.
## Project Overview
Despite Kenya’s global recognition in mobile money innovation, a significant portion of the population still lacks access to formal financial services such as:
- Banking services
- Insurance products
- SACCO services
- Pension schemes
- Regulated credit facilities
This project uses the **FinAccess 2021 Household Survey Microdata** to:
- identify financially excluded individuals,
- understand drivers of exclusion,
- analyze vulnerable populations,
- and build predictive machine learning models for financial exclusion risk.
The project follows a complete end-to-end data science workflow:
- data understanding,
- preprocessing,
- exploratory analysis,
- machine learning,
- explainability,
- and Flask and streamlit deployment.
## Live Applications
### Streamlit Application
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The Streamlit application allows users to interact with the trained machine learning model through a web interface and generate financial exclusion risk predictions in real time.
Tableau Dashboard
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The Tableau dashboard provides interactive visual exploration of financial exclusion trends across demographic and geographic groups.
## Interactive Dashboard
The dashboard provides interactive insights into:
- Financial exclusion by county
- Financial exclusion by marital status
- Financial exclusion by education level
- Comparison of rural vs urban financial exclusion
## Data Access & Reproducibility
The original FinAccess 2021 microdata workbook (finaccess_2021_microdata.xlsx) is approximately 193 MB and is not included in this repository due to GitHub file s …