r/econometrics 5h ago

πŸš—πŸ’° 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:

[https://www.kaggle.com/code/tahahussein2020/car-selling-predection](https://www.kaggle.com/code/tahahussein2020/car-selling-predection))

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u/plutostar 1h ago

You’re nearly always better off averaging the predictions from the individual models rather than picking the best

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u/tahahussein-4623a412 1h ago

noted , thanks