Repo to hold my code for the Kaggle House Prices: Advanced Regression Techniques challenge.
- Housing price crash from 2008 onwards. Is this significant? Maybe variables to indicate the stage of the crisis based upon month / year?
- Vvariable to indicate number of floors (including basement)?
- Dimensionality Reduction on Basement, Garage variables?
- Has Basement / Garage variables?
Highly correlated variables:
OverallQual Rates the overall material and finish of the house 0.8
GrLivArea Above grade (ground) living area square feet 0.7
Correlated variables
1stFlrSF First Floor square feet 0.6
TotalBsmtSF Total square feet of basement area 0.6
FullBath Full bathrooms above grade 0.6
YearBuilt Year Built 0.5
YearRemodAdd Year Remodelled 0.5 (note - this is the same as the construction date if no remodelling or additions)
MasVnrArea Masonry veneer area in square feet 0.5