End-to-end telecom and fintech analytics platform using synthetic African smartphone financing data.
# African Device Financing Risk Analytics
## Overview
This project simulates an end-to-end telecom and fintech analytics platform for African smartphone financing markets.
The platform demonstrates:
- Synthetic telecom-fintech data generation
- Data quality validation frameworks
- ETL transformation pipelines
- Executive KPI reporting
- Risk segmentation analytics
- CI/CD-ready project structure
- Data engineering best practices
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## Business Context
Smartphone financing is a major driver of digital inclusion across African telecom markets.
This project simulates how mobile network operators and fintech partners can use alternative data sources to analyze:
- Customer repayment behavior
- Credit risk exposure
- Device financing performance
- Market-level portfolio health
- Financial inclusion trends
Markets simulated include:
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Mozambique
- DRC
- Lesotho
- Kenya
- Ethiopia
- Egypt
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## Project Architecture
```
african-device-financing-risk-analytics/
│
├── data/
│ ├── device_financing_data.csv
│ └── processed_device_financing_data.csv
│
├── docs/
│
├── notebooks/
│
├── src/
│ ├── generate_data.py
│ ├── data_quality.py
│ ├── etl_pipeline.py
│ └── kpi_dashboard.py
│
├── tests/
│
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md
```
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## Data Engineering Components
### 1. Synthetic Data Generation
Generates telecom-fintech customer financing data using Python, NumPy, Pandas, and Faker.
### 2. Data Quality Validation
Implements governance checks including:
- Null validation
- Domain validation
- Financial consistency checks
- Risk category validation
### 3. ETL Pipeline
Transforms raw financing data into analytics-ready datasets with engineered features such as:
- Deposit ratio
- Loan-to-income ratio
- Default flags
- High-risk indicators
### 4. KPI Dashboard
Produces executive-level portfolio insights including:
- Total loan book
- Default rates
- Market performance
- Risk segmentation
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## Technologies Used
- Python …