United States Cars Price Predictions

@lee-rowe
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
6 min readMay 27, 2021

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Cars are one of the most essential tools in just about all of our daily lives, while the money we spend from day to day certainly is. With that being said it is a justifiable inquiry to look into what is going to have the most impact on the price that you will most likely end up paying for your vehicle.

The Dataset…

The dataset that I chose to use was originally scraped from www.auctionexport.com, which is a website dedicated to car sales in the US. It was then uploaded to kaggle.com, where I found it and put the numbers to the test. Even if you know nothing about the car market or price of current/past cars it is sort of a given that we all know it exists also that is very large and abundant. Meaning that there are some very expensive cars and vice versa. The dataset includes information describing a total of 28 brands of new and used vehicles for sale in United States. Twelve different features are also included for each car that was being sold and that can be used to predict price.

The data I chose was quite close to being tidy and ready to use but I first needed to drop a few columns as well as fill in a few values of cars that were missing prices due to…

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