Predict Population Growth Using Linear Regression — Machine Learning Easy and Fun

In Machine Learning one of the simplest prediction models is Linear Regression. It allows you to make predictions on the data and it’s really intuitive and easy to understand

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In this project, we will make a prediction on the Swedish population growth. There is also a lot of open data available online in Sweden, so that’s an opportunity for making interesting and real projects. I will try to split this project in multiple steps.

Table of Contents

1. Understand Linear Regression
2. Collect and Prepare the Data
3. Visualize Data (Understand the Data)
4. Normalize the Features
5. Create Linear Regression Model
6. Predict Using Linear Regression Model

The data and the code are available on my Github account https://github.com/gognjanovski/PopulationPredictionLinearRegression

For this solution I used the GNU Octave (compatible with Matlab)and Visual Studio Code.

So, let’s start…

Understand Linear Regression