Pipeline for solving classical regression problem - House Price estimation considering Lot size in square feet, Linear feet of street connected to the property, Roof material and style, Overall material and finish quality, Year of Building, Number of bedrooms, etc. This pipeline includes data processing, regression model training, and further application.
Problem Statement
Based on the house characteristics, assess its more likely sale price.
Dataset
House Pricing public dataset with 1460 records of houses and their prices accompanied with various features:
Data Description
SalePrice: the property's sale price in dollars. This is the target variable that you're trying to predict.
MSSubClass: The building class
MSZoning: The general zoning classification
LotFrontage: Linear feet of street connected to property
LotArea: Lot size in square feet
Street: Type of road access
Alley: Type of alley access
LotShape: General shape of property
LandContour: Flatness of the property
Utilities: Type of utilities available
LotConfig: Lot configuration
LandSlope: Slope of property
Neighborhood: Physical locations within Ames city limits
Condition1: Proximity to main road or railroad
Condition2: Proximity to main road or railroad (if a second is present)
BldgType: Type of dwelling
HouseStyle: Style of dwelling
OverallQual: Overall material and finish quality
OverallCond: Overall condition rating
YearBuilt: Original construction date
YearRemodAdd: Remodel date
RoofStyle: Type of roof
RoofMatl: Roof material
Exterior1st: Exterior covering on house
Exterior2nd: Exterior covering on house (if more than one material)
MasVnrType: Masonry veneer type
MasVnrArea: Masonry veneer area in square feet
ExterQual: Exterior material quality
ExterCond: Present condition of the material on the exterior
Foundation: Type of foundation
BsmtQual: Height of the basement
BsmtCond: General condition of the basement
BsmtExposure: Walkout or garden level basement walls
BsmtFinType1: Quality of basement finished area
BsmtFinSF1: Type 1 finished square feet
BsmtFinType2: Quality of second finished area (if present)
BsmtFinSF2: Type 2 finished square feet
BsmtUnfSF: Unfinished square feet of basement area
GrLivArea: Above grade (ground) living area square feet
BsmtFullBath: Basement full bathrooms
BsmtHalfBath: Basement half bathrooms
FullBath: Full bathrooms above grade
HalfBath: Half baths above grade
Bedroom: Number of bedrooms above basement level
Kitchen: Number of kitchens
KitchenQual: Kitchen quality
TotRmsAbvGrd: Total rooms above grade (does not include bathrooms)
Functional: Home functionality rating
Fireplaces: Number of fireplaces
FireplaceQu: Fireplace quality
GarageType: Garage location
GarageYrBlt: Year garage was built
GarageFinish: Interior finish of the garage
GarageCars: Size of garage in car capacity
GarageArea: Size of garage in square feet
GarageQual: Garage quality
GarageCond: Garage condition
PavedDrive: Paved driveway
WoodDeckSF: Wood deck area in square feet
OpenPorchSF: Open porch area in square feet
EnclosedPorch: Enclosed porch area in square feet
3SsnPorch: Three season porch area in square feet
ScreenPorch: Screen porch area in square feet
PoolArea: Pool area in square feet
PoolQC: Pool quality
Fence: Fence quality
MiscFeature: Miscellaneous feature not covered in other categories
MiscVal: $Value of miscellaneous feature
MoSold: Month Sold
YrSold: Year Sold
SaleType: Type of sale
SaleCondition: Condition of sale
Target Variable
SalePrice
Datrics Pipeline
Pipeline Shema
Pipeline Scenario
Data Load
Select valuable attributes
Categorical Features binarization
Missing Values Treatmment
Prepare samplings for model training and verification
Model Train and Validation
Pipeline results
Model performance
The model provides a good fitting of the dependent variable - coefficient of determination is 0.86% on the test set. To see the final results, press "Model performance" button on the Predict brick menu.
Feature Importance
The predictive importance of the input features for the assessment target variable can be reached via Train Brick→ Model Performance dashboard. The most important features are Overall Quality and Above grade (ground) living area square feet.
Prediction Results
Model prediction results can be reviewed and analysed in Predict→Output dashboard.
