House Price Prediction

Predict house prices in Ames, Iowa using various machine learning models

Iowa Housing Price Prediction Kaggle competiton: https://www.kaggle.com/c/house-prices-advanced-regression-techniques/overview

Project Flow:

• Import Libraries and Read Data
• Look at each column in the training data - understand its purpose and importance
• Expectation: What is my expectation about the variable influence on the 'SalePrice'
• Separate into numerical and categorical variables
• Data Visualization of Numerical variables as Scatterplots
• Data Visualization of Categorical variables as Boxplots
• Heatmaps -- find multicollinearity
• top10 Heatmap - highly correlated with 'SalePrice' - remove multicollinear variables
• Combine Train and Test
• Handle Missingness
• Target ('SalePrice') Analysis and log-Transformation
• Feature Engineer (generate new features)
• Dummify
• Split back into Train and Test and Export Data into csv files
• Model Testing And Running: Lasso, Ridge, ElasticNet, Huber, RandomForest, GradientBoost, XGBoost
• Prediction
• Model Selection
• Future Improvements