kunalagarwal101 / Boston-Housing-Project

Machine Learning Project was given by Consulting and Analytics club, IIT Guwahati. Predicted the housing rates in Boston. Used decision tree regressor for estimating the prices.

Project: Predicting Boston Housing Prices

Model Evaluation and Validation

This project requires Python and the following Python libraries installed:

• NumPy
• Pandas
• matplotlib
• scikit-learn

If you do not have Python installed yet, it is highly recommended that you install the Anaconda distribution of Python, which already has the above packages and more included.

Data

The modified Boston housing dataset consists of 489 data points, with each datapoint having 3 features. This dataset is a modified version of the Boston Housing dataset found on the UCI Machine Learning Repository.

Features

1. RM: average number of rooms per dwelling
2. LSTAT: percentage of population considered lower status
3. PTRATIO: pupil-teacher ratio by town

Target Variable 4. MEDV: median value of owner-occupied homes