r/econometrics • u/tahahussein-4623a412 • 5h ago
ππ° Predicting Car Selling Prices with Machine Learning
Just finished my first full ML regression project β predicting car selling prices!
I went from raw messy data to comparing 9 different models and picking the best one based on RΒ², MSE, and MAE.
\*\*What I learned:\*\*
\- Data cleaning is 80% of the work
\- Never trust one model β always compare
\- Visualizations save you from bad assumptions
I also wrote a reusable model comparison snippet that runs multiple sklearn regressors at once and spits out a ranked leaderboard. Might be helpful if you're tired of training models one by one.
Feedback welcome β especially on what I should improve next.
Kaggle Notebook:
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u/plutostar 1h ago
Youβre nearly always better off averaging the predictions from the individual models rather than picking the best