🏡 House Price Prediction using Machine Learning

A beginner-friendly project to predict house prices based on various factors such as square footage, number of bedrooms, location, and more. This project walks through data exploration, visualization, linear regression, and gradient boosting to achieve high model accuracy.

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📂 Project Structure

data/                         # Dataset used for training and testing
house_price_prediction.ipynb  # Main Jupyter Notebook with all code
requirements.txt              # Python dependencies
README.md                     # Project documentation

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📊 Dataset

This dataset contains details of house listings including:

• Number of bedrooms and bathrooms
• Square footage (with and without basement)
• Waterfront presence
• Location via latitude and longitude
• Zipcode
• Year built and renovated
• Price of the house

Source: [Add dataset source or link here]

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🧪 Models Used

🔹 Linear Regression

• First model used to understand relationships in data
• Achieved ~73% accuracy

🔹 Gradient Boosting Regressor

• Powerful ensemble model using decision trees
• Achieved ~91.94% accuracy

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📈 Key Visualizations

• Most common house types by bedroom count
• Price vs. Living Area
• Price vs. Location (Latitude and Longitude)
• Influence of features like:
  • Basement area
  • Floors
  • Condition
  • Waterfront

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🔧 Requirements

Install dependencies using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Main Libraries Used

• pandas
• numpy
• matplotlib
• seaborn
• scikit-learn

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🚀 How to Run

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Shreyas3108/house-price-prediction.git
cd house-price-prediction

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the Jupyter Notebook

jupyter notebook house_price_prediction.ipynb

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🎯 Goal

To achieve over 85% prediction accuracy in estimating house prices using regression techniques.

✅ Final model using Gradient Boosting achieved 91.94% accuracy.

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📚 Learning Points

• Data cleaning and preprocessing
• Exploratory data analysis
• Feature engineering
• Linear Regression vs Gradient Boosting
• Model evaluation using r2_score

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📌 Credits

Written by Shreyas Raghavan Originally published on Medium: [https://medium.com/data-science/create-a-model-to-predict-house-prices-using-python-d34fe8fad88f]

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🌟 Contribute

Feel free to fork this project, improve the model, or apply it to other real estate datasets!

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📬 Contact

For queries or collaborations, reach out on GitHub or comment on the Medium article.