Wrangling through Dataland

Cracking the Ames Housing Dataset with Linear Regression

Regression modelling for prediction and statistical inference

Alvin T. Tan, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
14 min readNov 13, 2019

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Image of Ames, Iowa by Tim Kiser from Creative Commons

The feature richness of the Ames housing dataset (2011) is both alluring and bewildering in equal measure. It is easy to become entagled in its bountiful features while trying to uncover its…

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Financier by profession. Economist by training. Data scientist & essayist by inclination.