Lesson 11.2: Project 1 – Predicting House Prices (Regression)
🔹 Objective
Build a regression model to predict house prices based on features like area, number of bedrooms, location, etc.
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Practice data preprocessing, feature engineering, model building, and evaluation.
🔹 Steps to Build the Project
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Load Dataset
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Understand Dataset
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Check columns, data types, missing values.
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Identify numeric and categorical features.
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Preprocess Data
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Handle missing values → Fill or drop.
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Encode categorical variables → One-Hot or Label Encoding.
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Feature scaling → Standardization/Normalization if needed.
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Split Dataset
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Build Regression Model
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Example: Linear Regression
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Evaluate Model
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Metrics: MAE, MSE, RMSE, R² Score
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Optional Improvements
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Try Polynomial Regression or Regularization (Ridge/Lasso).
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Feature selection to improve accuracy.
🔹 Key Learnings
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Data preprocessing and cleaning are critical.
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Regression models predict continuous outcomes.
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Evaluation metrics help measure prediction performance.
✅ Quick Recap:
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Task → Predict house prices (regression).
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Steps → Load → Preprocess → Split → Train → Evaluate.
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Improve → Feature engineering, regularization, model tuning.
