Willsmike2012/food-inflation-forecast

Capstone Project to generate an interactive Food Inflation Dashboard to demonstrating how households are impacted by the rising food prices in Nigeria by analyzing and visualizing food-price versus inflation trends across some States in the country. # 🍚 Nigeria Food Inflation Dashboard **Capstone Project** — Analyzing and visualizing food-price vs. headline inflation trends in Nigeria, and how they translate into what households pay at the market. **Problem context:** Households across Nigeria have felt sharp increases in food prices in recent years. This project makes that trend visible and explorable: how does food inflation compare to overall inflation, how has it moved over time, and how much do staple prices differ from state to state? ## 🔴 Live Dashboard Once deployed (see steps below), your live link will be: `https:// .github.io` ## What's in this repo ``` food-inflation-dashboard/ ├── data/ │ ├── raw/ # full raw datasets land here (see scripts/fetch_data.py) │ └── clean/ │ ├── national_inflation_trend.csv # NBS/World Bank headline vs food inflation, 2020–2026 │ └── state_food_prices_aug2023.csv # staple food prices by state, Aug 2023 snapshot ├── scripts/ │ ├── fetch_data.py # pulls the full WFP Nigeria Food Prices dataset (2002–present) │ └── clean_data.py # cleans it into dashboard-ready monthly CSVs ├── docs/ │ └── index.html # the interactive dashboard (GitHub Pages serves this) └── README.md ``` ## Data sources (real, cited, open) | Source | What it gives you | Link | |---|---|---| | National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) | Official monthly headline & food CPI inflation reports | nigerianstat.gov.ng | | World Bank World Development Indicators (via FRED) | Annual headline inflation, long time series | fred.stlouisfed.org | | WFP "Nigeria – Food Prices" (HDX) | Monthly, market-level, commodity-level retail prices, 2002–present | data.humdata.org | | Statista (NBS-sourced) | State-level staple price snapshots | statista.com | The two CSVs already in `data/clean/` are built directly from the …