housing_data_inspection

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</>Load housing data
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("/Users/wyatt/Downloads/Housing.csv")

print(f"Shape: {df.shape}")
columns = df.columns.tolist()
print(f"Columns ({len(columns)}):", columns if len(columns) <= 100 else columns[:100] + ["..."])

df.head()
Shape: (545, 13)
Columns (13): ['price', 'area', 'bedrooms', 'bathrooms', 'stories', 'mainroad', 'guestroom', 'basement', 'hotwaterheating', 'airconditioning', 'parking', 'prefarea', 'furnishingstatus']
price area bedrooms bathrooms stories mainroad guestroom basement hotwaterheating airconditioning parking prefarea furnishingstatus
0 13300000 7420 4 2 3 yes no no no yes 2 yes furnished
1 12250000 8960 4 4 4 yes no no no yes 3 no furnished
2 12250000 9960 3 2 2 yes no yes no no 2 yes semi-furnished
3 12215000 7500 4 2 2 yes no yes no yes 3 yes furnished
4 11410000 7420 4 1 2 yes yes yes no yes 2 no furnished
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Evaluating output options

I'm checking how to present data. Using print shape columns and display(df.iloc[:5]) seems similar, but they might output differently. Requirement B notes they need to be materially different, so maybe I should consider adding data types. However, I don't think that's necessary. I really prefer to rely on the existing DataFrame and its inspection. It looks like some aspects haven't yielded results, which I need to keep in mind.

The notebook contains the intended CSV-loading code, but no inspection results are available yet. This checks the current df object’s dimensions, fields, and first five records.

</>Preview dataframe shape and columns
print(f"Shape: {df.shape}")
columns = df.columns.tolist()
print(f"Columns ({len(columns)}):", columns if len(columns) <= 100 else columns[:100] + ["..."])

df.iloc[:5]
Shape: (545, 13)
Columns (13): ['price', 'area', 'bedrooms', 'bathrooms', 'stories', 'mainroad', 'guestroom', 'basement', 'hotwaterheating', 'airconditioning', 'parking', 'prefarea', 'furnishingstatus']
price area bedrooms bathrooms stories mainroad guestroom basement hotwaterheating airconditioning parking prefarea furnishingstatus
0 13300000 7420 4 2 3 yes no no no yes 2 yes furnished
1 12250000 8960 4 4 4 yes no no no yes 3 no furnished
2 12250000 9960 3 2 2 yes no yes no no 2 yes semi-furnished
3 12215000 7500 4 2 2 yes no yes no yes 3 yes furnished
4 11410000 7420 4 1 2 yes yes yes no yes 2 no furnished

The housing dataset has 545 records and 13 columns. It includes a likely target variable, price, along with numeric property attributes such as area, bedrooms, bathrooms, stories, and parking, plus categorical home features such as air conditioning, basement, furnishing status, and road access. The preview shows prices stored as whole numeric values and feature flags represented as yes/no.

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Inspecting data quality

I’m considering whether we need to inspect the data. Since it’s already loaded, the next step may be to create a data quality summary. I guess I could set up a default table for this. I’ll check for missing values and data types in the table to make sure everything’s in order. I might write some code to generate an actual summary DataFrame, which sounds like a solid next step.

Next, check data types, missing values, and distinct-value counts to confirm the dataset is ready for analysis.

</>Summarize column stats
summary = pd.DataFrame({
    "dtype": df.dtypes.astype(str),
    "missing_values": df.isna().sum(),
    "unique_values": df.nunique()
})

display(summary)
dtype missing_values unique_values
price int64 0 219
area int64 0 284
bedrooms int64 0 6
bathrooms int64 0 4
stories int64 0 4
mainroad str 0 2
guestroom str 0 2
basement str 0 2
hotwaterheating str 0 2
airconditioning str 0 2
parking int64 0 4
prefarea str 0 2
furnishingstatus str 0 3

The dataset has complete coverage: all 545 records contain values for every one of the 13 variables, so no missing-data treatment is needed for initial analysis.

price and area are high-cardinality numeric fields, while bedrooms, bathrooms, stories, and parking are compact numeric property attributes. The remaining columns are binary or three-level categorical features, suitable for encoding if building a price-prediction model. price is a plausible outcome variable for that purpose.

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please training with xgboost and other 5 recommandation alogrithm and show the the result

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Considering regression model approaches

I'm thinking about which regression models to recommend, like Linear Regression, Ridge, RandomForest, ExtraTrees, and GradientBoosting. I have to evaluate them using holdout MAE, RMSE, and R² metrics. When working with categorical data, I’ll use pandas' get_dummies for preprocessing, but I need to avoid data leakage by fitting only on training data. A pipeline is a good option for managing transformations, and I should check for compatibility with XGBRegressor. Overall, ensuring I handle encodings correctly is critical.Preparing for model evaluation

I need to gather all the model results and ensure the best results are easily visible at the end. I should make sure to have the model values for analysis, which might take some time. I also need to check if XGBoost is installed. If it fails, I have to be ready to report a fallback option after execution. It's good to keep these steps in mind so I can handle everything smoothly.

I’ll compare XGBoost with five suitable regression baselines using an 80/20 holdout split. price is the target; no identifier-like columns are present.

</>Train and compare models
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error, mean_squared_error, r2_score
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression, Ridge
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor, ExtraTreesRegressor, GradientBoostingRegressor
from xgboost import XGBRegressor
import pandas as pd

X = df.drop(columns="price")
y = df["price"]

numeric_cols = X.select_dtypes(include="number").columns.tolist()
categorical_cols = X.select_dtypes(exclude="number").columns.tolist()

preprocessor = ColumnTransformer(
    transformers=[
        ("numeric", "passthrough", numeric_cols),
        ("categorical", OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown="ignore", sparse_output=False), categorical_cols),
    ]
)

models = {
    "XGBoost": XGBRegressor(
        n_estimators=500, learning_rate=0.03, max_depth=3,
        subsample=0.8, colsample_bytree=0.8, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1
    ),
    "Random Forest": RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=500, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1),
    "Extra Trees": ExtraTreesRegressor(n_estimators=500, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1),
    "Gradient Boosting": GradientBoostingRegressor(random_state=42),
    "Ridge Regression": Ridge(alpha=10),
    "Linear Regression": LinearRegression(),
}

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
    X, y, test_size=0.20, random_state=42
)

results = []
fitted_models = {}

for name, model in models.items():
    pipeline = Pipeline([
        ("preprocess", preprocessor),
        ("model", model),
    ])
    pipeline.fit(X_train, y_train)
    predictions = pipeline.predict(X_test)
    fitted_models[name] = pipeline

    results.append({
        "model": name,
        "MAE (USD)": round(mean_absolute_error(y_test, predictions), 2),
        "RMSE (USD)": round(mean_squared_error(y_test, predictions) ** 0.5, 2),
        "R²": round(r2_score(y_test, predictions), 4),
    })

results = pd.DataFrame(results).sort_values("RMSE (USD)").reset_index(drop=True)
results
model MAE (USD) RMSE (USD) R²
0 Gradient Boosting 967227.33 1299730.23 0.6658
1 XGBoost 963375.25 1317456.14 0.6566
2 Linear Regression 970043.40 1324506.96 0.6529
3 Ridge Regression 966547.43 1327866.33 0.6512
4 Extra Trees 1029043.57 1381675.25 0.6223
5 Random Forest 1014868.04 1392519.55 0.6164

Six regression models were trained and evaluated on the same 80/20 test split using price as the prediction target.

Rank Model MAE RMSE $R^2$
1 Gradient Boosting 967,227.33 USD 1,299,730.23 USD 0.6658
2 XGBoost 963,375.25 USD 1,317,456.14 USD 0.6566
3 Linear Regression 970,043.40 USD 1,324,506.96 USD 0.6529
4 Ridge Regression 966,547.43 USD 1,327,866.33 USD 0.6512
5 Extra Trees 1,029,043.57 USD 1,381,675.25 USD 0.6223
6 Random Forest 1,014,868.04 USD 1,392,519.55 USD 0.6164

Gradient Boosting is the best overall model because it has the lowest RMSE and highest $R^2$, explaining about 66.6% of variation in house prices. XGBoost is a very close second and has the lowest average absolute prediction error (MAE), at approximately 963,375 USD.

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