Publications and Research
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
5-11-2020
Abstract
Data Science is used as a tool to find hidden facts in the data. We want to find out what factors such as ‘AGE’, ‘TAX’, ‘PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO’, ‘PER-CAPITA INCOME’ contribute the most to housing prices. To answer this question, we studied the dataset of “Boston Houses Prices”. By applying the Lasso Regression (a Data Mining Technique) on the data set of “Boston Houses Prices” we identified the influential factors in the linear model. As a conclusion we found that there were six inputs which contributed the most to the prices of houses and those inputs are as follow: (i) CRIM-per capita crime rate by town, (ii) ZN- proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25000 sq. Ft, (iii) CHAS-Charles River Dummy Variable, (iv) RM- Average number of rooms per dwelling, (v) Black- proportion of black by town, and (vi) LSTAT-Lower status of population
Comments
This poster, first place winner for group projects, was presented at the 32nd Semi-Annual Honors and Undergraduate Research Scholars Poster Presentation at New York City College of Technology, May 11, 2020. Mentors: Professors Nan Li and Zhou Lin (Mathematics).