Goal: to predict the rental prices in the SF rental market Click here for the data.](https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/data/2022/2022-07-05/readme.md)

Import Data

rent <- read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2022/2022-07-05/rent.csv')

Explore Data

data <- rent %>%
  
  #Treat missing values 
  select(-address, -descr, -details, -lat, -lon, -date, -year, -room_in_apt) %>%
  na.omit() %>%
  
  # Log transform variables with pos-skewed distribution
  mutate(price=log(price))

Identify Good Predictors

SQFT

data %>%
  ggplot(aes(price, sqft)) +
  scale_y_log10()+
  geom_point()

Beds

data %>%
  ggplot(aes(price, as.factor(beds))) +
  geom_boxplot()

#Title

data %>% 
  
  # tokenzie title
  unnest_tokens(output = word, input = title) %>%
  
  # calculate avg rent per word
  group_by(word) %>%
  summarise(price = mean(price),
            n  =n()) %>% 
  ungroup() %>% 
  
  filter(n > 10, !str_detect(word, "//d")) %>%
  slice_max(order_by = price, n=20) %>%
  
  # Plot
  ggplot(aes(price, fct_reorder(word, price))) + 
  geom_point() + 
  
  labs(y= "words on Title")

Prepare Data

data_binarized_tbl <- data %>%
  select(-post_id, -title) %>%
  binarize()
data_binarized_tbl %>% glimpse()
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#Correlate

data_corr_tbl <- data_binarized_tbl %>%
  correlate(price__8.07868822922987_Inf)
data_corr_tbl
## # A tibble: 85 × 3
##    feature bin                               correlation
##    <fct>   <chr>                                   <dbl>
##  1 price   8.07868822922987_Inf                    1    
##  2 city    san_francisco                           0.389
##  3 county  san_francisco                           0.389
##  4 price   -Inf_7.52294091807237                  -0.342
##  5 price   7.80384330353877_8.07868822922987      -0.330
##  6 price   7.52294091807237_7.80384330353877      -0.328
##  7 sqft    1500_Inf                                0.324
##  8 beds    -Inf_2                                 -0.254
##  9 beds    3_Inf                                   0.241
## 10 sqft    -Inf_887                               -0.240
## # ℹ 75 more rows

#Plot

data_corr_tbl %>%
  plot_correlation_funnel()
## Warning: ggrepel: 69 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps