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Solving problems with the Small Business Administration
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Changes to Blogpost #8

Closed VincentLa closed 4 years ago

VincentLa commented 7 years ago

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Would be interesting to find labor data to understand the # of businesses in each of these counties. Is there an even proportion of businesses served in each county? Why are some counties getting higher proporitions? Does this signify underserved by SBA if certain counties see lower proportion of loan disbursment?

Other interesting q's: what population does each county serve? Wouldn't SBA have higher impact if served more populated communities (more population = higher demand)?

Check out Z's code for pulling in Census data here: https://github.com/sfbrigade/datasci-sba/blob/master/notebooks/SBA-Data-Integration.ipynb and check out Census data

Check out relationship between businesses in area, population, and SBA loans

Both in terms of cross tabulation/correlations/visualizations (plotting)

dyau8888 commented 7 years ago

1) Recommendation to SBA, if they were looking for "underserved" areas at the high pri places (those with the lowest ratio of loans to businesses), show map of geographic areas to focus. Next steps: to hone in on specific businesses, they can take a look at the businesses that are not served and have characteristics they'd be interested in.

2) If SBA was looking for profiles of existing businesses that received loans e.g.

3) Understand what variables have correlation (scatter plot) with underserved (low funded) businesses