CFPB Consumer Complaints Database

A Place for Collaboration

This repo is meant to be a meeting ground, discussion forum, and code repository for folks working with the consumer complaints database run by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (@CFPB).

How to Get Involved

• Collaborative communication: Use the GitHub Issues section of this repo to collaborate by discussing ideas, problems, findings, and anything else related to working with the complaints database.

• Code: Contribute code that is helpful for working with the database (for example: cleaning, analysis, or API wrapping).

New to GitHub? No sweat. Accounts are free, and there's plenty of help around if you have questions.

Useful Links

• The raw complaints data: https://data.consumerfinance.gov/dataset/Consumer-Complaints/x94z-ydhh?
• Socrata (data portal platform) help videos: https://explore.data.gov/videos
• Socrata API documentation: http://data.consumerfinance.gov/api/docs/
• CFPB organization on GitHub: https://github.com/cfpb?tab=members
• CFPB on Twitter and Facebook

(This repo was started by Dave Guarino, but purely to get people talking to one another. If it's helpful, you can ping me on Twitter at @allafarce).