Project Luther

Predicting Neighborhood Stability via Property Tax Assessment Data

Data Source Evaluation

Candidates

  • Cook County
  • Lake County
  • DuPage County
  • Will County

Data Source Evaluation

Selected

  • Will County
  • Target: Time since last sale of house.
  • Features: Data avaialble on site.

Will County Website

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Initial Data Scrape

  • 5000+ rows scraped
  • 4000+ rows with target
  • 1500+ rows selected after cleaning/transforming features

Initial Regression

  • Weak correlation between target and selected features
  • Low adjust R^2 value

Next Steps

  • Extract more data
  • Explore more features
  • Explore feature interactions