Kiva Loan Recommender

This repo contains the code for a Kiva Loan Recommender based on user loan history.

Jupyter notebooks:

Kiva Loans - Feature Selection.ipynb: Initial analyses to find features that appeared to be more similar in loans given by a single user (ie. features that users showed a preference for).
Kiva Loans - Find Similar Loans.ipynb: Calculations of two types of similarity score for comparison.

find_similar_loans.py: Given a username as input, outputs loan details of the most similar loans for this user.
update_loan_database.py: Periodically update the database with new loans and remove expired loans. This is run as a cronjob once daily. Calling it a "database" is a bit of a misnomer since it's stored as a pickled dictionary (data/loan_elements.pickle).

recommender/: Flask app that runs the website www.kivaloans4.me, using the environment detailed in environment.yml.

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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data		data
recommender		recommender
references		references
.DS_Store		.DS_Store
.gitignore		.gitignore
Kiva Loans - Feature Selection.ipynb		Kiva Loans - Feature Selection.ipynb
Kiva Loans - Find Similar Loans.ipynb		Kiva Loans - Find Similar Loans.ipynb
README.md		README.md
colors.py		colors.py
country.py		country.py
environment.yml		environment.yml
find_similar_loans.py		find_similar_loans.py
log.txt		log.txt
run.py		run.py
update_loan_database.py		update_loan_database.py
utils.py		utils.py