Story 5: What Factors Determine Housing Prices in Ames, Iowa?

Assigned: Week 9 | Due: Sunday, November 8 at midnight Eastern | Points: 100

In week 9 we learn to visualize models, and in week 10 we learn about dimensionality reduction techniques. A good dataset to practice these tools on is the Ames housing price dataset, which is a sort of “model organism” for machine learning practice. The emphasis of this assignment (described in the pdf) is on building a model or models of the factors determining housing prices and using visualizations to explain their meaning and implications.

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