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Apartment Pricing: Advance Regression Techniques

Dubai real estate
Credit: Kate Trysh

Introduction

This project is inspired by a famous Kaggle competition called House Prices: Advanced Regression Techniques.  The original project on Kaggle is based on the Boston Housing dataset and is an ideal project for newbies to hone their skills on.

The original project on Kaggle gives you full opportunity to practice data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and modeling. However, one aspect of the data science project lifecycle was missing, i.e., data scavenging and extraction. The data is already extracted for you, and you don’t know how the information was gathered.

My objective was to achieve the same goals of the original project, but by doing so, using my dataset. Instead of Boston housing, I started looking into the Dubai real estate market and opted to use one of the prominent real estate property portals for my data extraction.

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Battle of the Neighborhoods – Dubai Edition

Introduction

For my first data science project, I am presenting a scenario for an entrepreneur who wants to open a Pakistani restaurant in Dubai.

I’ve chosen Dubai first because I’ve spent a fair amount of time there, and I know how Dubai’s localities are segmented. Second, being a melting pot of 200+ nationalities, it offers world-class dining opportunities for people visiting or residing in Dubai.

Due to its world-class status as a tourism destination, Dubai is also the best contender for the Foursquare platform, an essential requirement for this project. 

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