CFPB Consumer Complaint Analytics
Built a Python, SQL, and dashboard workflow using real Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaint data to analyze product trends, response outcomes, and Texas complaint patterns.
Context
Public financial-services analytics project built from CFPB complaint data, with careful caveats around representativeness and responsible interpretation.
Key insight
Complaint data is most useful as a monitoring signal when it is paired with product context, geography, response outcomes, and clear data limitations.
Business impact
Created a reusable analytics workflow that helps financial-services teams identify which product and issue patterns deserve deeper operational review.
Problem
Financial complaint data is large, messy, and easy to misread without a focused workflow for cleaning, filtering, aggregating, and explaining the limits of the dataset.
Methods
Processed the CFPB CSV ZIP locally, filtered financial product categories, cleaned dates and categorical fields, stored analysis-ready data in SQLite, and generated dashboard metrics for product, issue, state, and response patterns.
Findings
The initial sample highlights credit reporting and debt collection as high-volume monitoring areas, with Texas complaint patterns available for regional comparison and follow-up analysis.
- Python
- SQL
- SQLite
- JavaScript
- Data Cleaning
- Dashboard
