House Price Prediction – USA Housing Data – with source code – easy project – 2024

House Price Prediction Project proves to be the Hello World of the Machine Learning world. It is a very easy project which simply uses Linear Regression to predict house prices. This is going to be a very short blog, so without any further due, Let’s do it…

Checkout the video here – https://youtu.be/Hlr6y6youhI

Step 1 – Importing required libraries.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
from sklearn.metrics import r2_score

%matplotlib inline

Step 2 – Reading our input data for House Price Prediction.

customers = pd.read_csv('USA_Housing.csv')
customers.head()

Step 3 – Describing our data.

customers.describe()

Step 4 – Analyzing information from our data.

customers.info()

Step 5 – Plots to visualize data of House Price Prediction.

sns.pairplot(customers)

• We use sns.pairplot(data) to plot all the possible combinations of numerical columns in the dataset.
• From the plots below we can infer one thing that Price is highly correlated to Average Area Income.

Step 6 – Scaling our data.

scaler = StandardScaler()

X=customers.drop(['Price','Address'],axis=1)
y=customers['Price']

cols = X.columns

X = scaler.fit_transform(X)

• We need to scale our data to bring everything down to one scale or within one range.
• We are using StandardScaler here to scale our data.
• Just check out the 1st image of input data and see how different columns belong to different scales.

Step 7 – Splitting our data for training and test purposes.

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.3, random_state=101)

• Using train_test_split() to split our data in 70%-30% proportions.

Step 8 – Training our Linear Regression model for House Price Prediction.

lr = LinearRegression()
lr.fit(X_train,y_train)

pred = lr.predict(X_test)

r2_score(y_test,pred)

• We are using r2_score here to measure the performance of our regression model.
• Our model is giving a 0.91 r2_score out of 1 which is a very decent score.
• I also tried using Lasso and Ridge Regressions but they also performed nearly the same as Linear regression.

Step 9 – Let’s visualize our predictions of House Price Prediction.

sns.scatterplot(x=y_test, y=pred)

• This should be a straight line for a 100% accurate model.
• But we are also getting a trend like a straight line which is also not bad.

Step 10 – Plotting the residuals of our House Price Prediction model.

sns.histplot((y_test-pred),bins=50,kde=True)

• Here we are plotting a histogram of residuals.
• Residual is the error term in a regression, or we can say the difference between the real value and our predicted value.
• As we can see that most of the residuals are around 0 means our predictions are almost near to the real values, hence it is a very good model.

Step 11 – Observe the coefficients.

cdf=pd.DataFrame(lr.coef_, cols, ['coefficients']).sort_values('coefficients',ascending=False)
cdf

• These are the coefficients calculated while Linear Regression.
• Its intuition is that a 1 unit increase in Avg. Area Income will lead to an increase of $230377.522 in the price of the house, assuming all other factors are kept constant.

Download Source Code…

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So this is all for this blog folks, thanks for reading it and I hope you are taking something with you after reading this and till the next time…

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