Ames Housing Data

Description

A data set from De Cock (2011) has 82 fields were recorded for 2,930 properties in Ames IA. This version is copies from the AmesHousing package but does not include a few quality columns that appear to be outcomes rather than predictors.

Details

See this links for the sources below for more information as well as ?AmesHousing::make_ames.

For these data, the training materials typically use:

library(tidymodels)

set.seed(4595)
data_split <- initial_split(ames, strata = "Sale_Price")
ames_train <- training(data_split)
ames_test  <- testing(data_split)

set.seed(2453)
ames_folds<- vfold_cv(ames_train)

Value

Source

De Cock, D. (2011). "Ames, Iowa: Alternative to the Boston Housing Data as an End of Semester Regression Project," Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 19, Number 3.

http://jse.amstat.org/v19n3/decock/DataDocumentation.txt

http://jse.amstat.org/v19n3/decock.pdf

Examples

data(ames)
str(ames)