Animal permits in Brisbane as indicators of socioeconomic position.

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Dog cost

Distribution of dogs across breeds with indication of 'expensive' ones:

Spatial distribution of dogs across neighbourhoods, with proportion of expensive ones:

Dog breeds used to predict deprivation

Best model to predict Index of Education and Occupation turned out to be XGBoost. Here is the prediction from the best tuned model:

Following breeds were found to be most important in predicting the outcome:

More details on the comparison of the models can be found here and full XGBoost analyses are here.