Ojey-egwuda/Lagos-House-Rent-Prediction

This project aims to predict house rent prices for locations in Lagos Nigeria. # Lagos-House-Rent-Prediction ## Overview The aim of this project is to build a linear regression model to predict Lagos house rent prices listed on nigeriapropertycentre.com , Nigeria Property Centre is a real estate and property website in Nigeria with property listings for sale, rent and lease. they offer Nigerian property seekers an easy way to find details of property like homes, houses, lands, shops, office spaces and other commercial properties to buy or rent. Nigeria Property Centre provides a platform for advertising property from organisations and Nigerian private property owners. ## Dataset The Dataset for this project was provided by DataLab Nigeria as part of the Data Science and Machine Learning Internship. The dataset contains information about few locations in Lagos Nigeria as when scrapped. Location: Locations in Lagos Nigeria Rent/Month: Rent per month in Naira Bathrooms: Total Number of Bathrooms Bedrooms: Total Number of Bedrooms Parking: Total Number of Parking available Toilet: Total Number of Toilets This data set is only for Educational Purpose. ## Data Wrangling/ Cleaning The Dataset contains 6 features, during data cleaning missing values were handled using null filler, outliers in the data was also handled ## Feature Engineering The Locations were renamed during feature engineering to allow it look uniform as with Locations in Nigeria, VI was renamed to Victoria Island, also new features 'District' and 'Island' were created from location