Predicting Portland Home Prices

For my final project at Metis, I wanted to choose something that enabled me to incorporate all that I had learned during the past three months. Predicting Portland home prices allowed me to do this because I was able to incorporate various web scraping techniques, natural language processing on text, deep learning models on images, and gradient boosting into tackling the problem. Below you can see 8,300 single family home sales that I scraped in Portland, OR between July 2016 - July 2017. Obviously, neighborhood plays a large role. The West Hills (in red) are one of the priciest areas in town, whereas East Portland is cheaper.