Background

LendingClub is a peer-to-peer marketplace where borrowers and investors are matched together.

The goal of LendingClub is to reduce the costs associated with these banking transactions and make

borrowing less expensive and investment more engaging. LendingClub provides data on loans that

have been approved and rejected since 2007, including the assigned interest rate and type of loan.

This provides several opportunities for data analysis. We will focus on the approved loans from

2014.

In this lab exercise, you will understand and clean the data to enable analysis for various problems