House Price Prediction Challenge — Meet The Winners & Know Their Approach

With the successful conclusion of yet another MachineHack’s hackathon — House Price Prediction Challenge — on 26th of October, Analytics India Magazine spoke to winners to understand their approach to solve the complex problem statement and to find out about their experience of participating and winning the hackathon. A month-long challenge, House Price Prediction Hackathon, was not only complicated but also exhausting considering, it could be challenging to identify the right set of attributes influencing buyers’ behaviour as such. For this hackathon, the participants were challenged to build a regression model, based on 12 influencing factors, for analysing and accurately predicting the house prices in India. The challenge was much welcomed by data scientists with active parti