This project is a part of the curriculum for General Assembly Data Science Immersive.
The problem this project aims to address is to advise Ames residents which particular features of a house will drive a house price up or down during sale.
The purpose of this project is to explore the data obtained from Ames to prospect which features of the house best influence the price of the house.
- Data Cleaning Methods
- Statistical Inference
- Imputation of Missing Data
- Data Scaling
- Basic Modelling techniques
- Regularisation
- Data Visualization
- Python
- Pandas, jupyter, numpy, scipy
- Matplotlib, Seaborn
- Scikit Learn
- Data was obtained from instructors and cleaned using these sources:
- https://www.kaggle.com/c/dsi-us-6-project-2-regression-challenge/submissions[here]
- data exploration/descriptive statistics
- data processing/cleaning
- missing data imputation
- statistical modeling
- writeup/reporting
- Please clone this repository before using it.
- Datasets are kept in .csv files that are contained in [../code/]within this repo.
- Data processing/transformation scripts are being kept [../code/]
| Feature | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 'overallqual' | Continuous | Overall material and finish quality |
| 'masvnrarea' | Continuous | Masonry veneer area in square feet |
| 'poolarea' | Continuous | Pool area in square feet |
| 'fireplaces' | Continuous | Number of fireplaces |
| 'grlivarea' | Continuous | Above grade (ground) living area square feet |
| 'screenporch' | Continuous | Screen porch area in square feet |
| 'lotarea' | Continuous | Lot size in square feet |
| '3ssnporch' | Continuous | Three season porch area in square feet |
| 'bsmtfullbath' | Continuous | Basement full bathrooms |
| 'totalbsmtsf' | Continuous | Total square feet of basement area |
| 'garagearea' | Continuous | Size of garage in square feet |
| 'yearbuilt' | Continuous | Original construction date |
| 'exterqual' | Ordinal | Exterior material quality |
| 'kitchenq' | Ordinal | Kitchen quality |
| 'bsmtq' | Ordinal | Height of the basement |
| 'garagefinish_RFn' | Dummy | Interior finish of the garage_ Rough Finished |
| 'garagefinish_Unf' | Dummy | Interior finish of the garage_ Unfinished |
| 'masvnrtype_BrkFace' | Dummy | Masonry veneer type_Brick Face |
| 'masvnrtype_None' | Dummy | Masonry veneer type_ None |
| 'masvnrtype_Stone' | Dummy | Masonry veneer type_Stone |
| 'heatingq' | Ordinal | Heating quality and condition |
| 'paveddrive_P', | Dummy | Partial Paved Drive |
| 'paveddrive_Y', | Dummy | Paved Drive |
| 'lotshape_IR2', | Dummy | General shape of property_Moderately Irregular |
| 'lotshape_IR3', | Dummy | General shape of property_Irregular |
| 'lotshape_Reg' | Dummy | General shape of property_regular |