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Real Estate Investment Predictor

January 2024

PythonJupyter NotebooksPandasNumPyMatplotlibSeabornScikit-learnXGBoost

A machine learning-powered analysis of Chicago's real estate market using Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) data to identify high-potential investment opportunities across neighborhoods.

Motivation

Created to assist real estate investors in making data-driven decisions by forecasting property values and analyzing neighborhood trends in Chicago.

Key Learnings

  • Performed extensive data cleaning and preprocessing on historical ZHVI and demographic data
  • Developed ML models including XGBoost, Lasso, and Ridge to forecast home values
  • Visualized trends in population density, property value, and neighborhood growth
  • Achieved over 80% accuracy in price prediction
  • Utilized cross-validation and grid search to tune hyperparameters