Goal: Build a regression model to predict the cost (cost_km_millions) of the transit project. Click here for the data.
transit_cost <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2021/2021-01-05/transit_cost.csv')
## Rows: 544 Columns: 20
## ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Delimiter: ","
## chr (11): country, city, line, start_year, end_year, tunnel_per, source1, cu...
## dbl (9): e, rr, length, tunnel, stations, cost, year, ppp_rate, cost_km_mil...
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## ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
## ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
skimr::skim(transit_cost)
| Name | transit_cost |
| Number of rows | 544 |
| Number of columns | 20 |
| _______________________ | |
| Column type frequency: | |
| character | 11 |
| numeric | 9 |
| ________________________ | |
| Group variables | None |
Variable type: character
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | min | max | empty | n_unique | whitespace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | 7 | 0.99 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 0 |
| city | 7 | 0.99 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 140 | 0 |
| line | 7 | 0.99 | 2 | 46 | 0 | 366 | 0 |
| start_year | 53 | 0.90 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
| end_year | 71 | 0.87 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| tunnel_per | 32 | 0.94 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 134 | 0 |
| source1 | 12 | 0.98 | 4 | 54 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| currency | 7 | 0.99 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 0 |
| real_cost | 0 | 1.00 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 534 | 0 |
| source2 | 10 | 0.98 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| reference | 19 | 0.97 | 3 | 302 | 0 | 350 | 0 |
Variable type: numeric
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | mean | sd | p0 | p25 | p50 | p75 | p100 | hist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e | 7 | 0.99 | 7738.76 | 463.23 | 7136.00 | 7403.00 | 7705.00 | 7977.00 | 9510.00 | ▇▇▂▁▁ |
| rr | 8 | 0.99 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| length | 5 | 0.99 | 58.34 | 621.20 | 0.60 | 6.50 | 15.77 | 29.08 | 12256.98 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| tunnel | 32 | 0.94 | 29.38 | 344.04 | 0.00 | 3.40 | 8.91 | 21.52 | 7790.78 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| stations | 15 | 0.97 | 13.81 | 13.70 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 10.00 | 20.00 | 128.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| cost | 7 | 0.99 | 805438.12 | 6708033.07 | 0.00 | 2289.00 | 11000.00 | 27000.00 | 90000000.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| year | 7 | 0.99 | 2014.91 | 5.64 | 1987.00 | 2012.00 | 2016.00 | 2019.00 | 2027.00 | ▁▁▂▇▂ |
| ppp_rate | 9 | 0.98 | 0.66 | 0.87 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.26 | 1.00 | 5.00 | ▇▂▁▁▁ |
| cost_km_millions | 2 | 1.00 | 232.98 | 257.22 | 7.79 | 134.86 | 181.25 | 241.43 | 3928.57 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
data <- transit_cost %>%
# Treat missing values
select(-cost, -currency, -source2, -source1, -reference, -line) %>%
mutate(across(c(start_year, end_year, real_cost), as.numeric)) %>%
na.omit() %>%
# Convert character columns to factors
mutate(across(where(is.character), as.factor)) %>%
# Convert rr to a factor
mutate(rr = factor(rr)) %>%
# log transform variables with pos-skewed distributions
mutate(cost_km_millions = log(cost_km_millions))
## Warning: There were 3 warnings in `mutate()`.
## The first warning was:
## ℹ In argument: `across(c(start_year, end_year, real_cost), as.numeric)`.
## Caused by warning:
## ! NAs introduced by coercion
## ℹ Run `dplyr::last_dplyr_warnings()` to see the 2 remaining warnings.
skimr::skim(data)
| Name | data |
| Number of rows | 436 |
| Number of columns | 14 |
| _______________________ | |
| Column type frequency: | |
| factor | 4 |
| numeric | 10 |
| ________________________ | |
| Group variables | None |
Variable type: factor
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | ordered | n_unique | top_counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | 0 | 1 | FALSE | 55 | CN: 169, IN: 27, TR: 20, ES: 15 |
| city | 0 | 1 | FALSE | 135 | Bei: 21, Sha: 18, Ist: 15, Mum: 13 |
| rr | 0 | 1 | FALSE | 2 | 0: 404, 1: 32 |
| tunnel_per | 0 | 1 | FALSE | 118 | 100: 245, 0.0: 51, 20.: 3, 35.: 3 |
Variable type: numeric
| skim_variable | n_missing | complete_rate | mean | sd | p0 | p25 | p50 | p75 | p100 | hist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e | 0 | 1 | 7694.72 | 482.20 | 7136.00 | 7354.75 | 7589.50 | 7923.50 | 9510.00 | ▇▅▂▁▁ |
| start_year | 0 | 1 | 2012.99 | 6.89 | 1982.00 | 2009.00 | 2015.00 | 2018.00 | 2025.00 | ▁▁▂▇▇ |
| end_year | 0 | 1 | 2018.88 | 6.49 | 1987.00 | 2016.00 | 2020.00 | 2023.00 | 2030.00 | ▁▁▂▇▆ |
| length | 0 | 1 | 20.59 | 21.93 | 0.60 | 6.10 | 14.75 | 28.20 | 200.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| tunnel | 0 | 1 | 13.64 | 15.50 | 0.00 | 3.27 | 8.40 | 20.00 | 160.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| stations | 0 | 1 | 13.77 | 14.03 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 10.00 | 20.00 | 128.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| year | 0 | 1 | 2014.51 | 5.91 | 1987.00 | 2012.00 | 2016.00 | 2018.00 | 2027.00 | ▁▁▂▇▂ |
| ppp_rate | 0 | 1 | 0.71 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.27 | 1.25 | 5.00 | ▇▂▁▁▁ |
| real_cost | 0 | 1 | 4208.47 | 4866.52 | 66.25 | 1168.71 | 2977.92 | 5540.55 | 45604.00 | ▇▁▁▁▁ |
| cost_km_millions | 0 | 1 | 5.23 | 0.63 | 2.05 | 4.89 | 5.22 | 5.49 | 8.28 | ▁▁▇▁▁ |
Identify good predictors.
Length
data %>%
ggplot(aes(cost_km_millions, length)) +
scale_y_log10() +
geom_point()
Tunnel
data %>%
ggplot(aes(cost_km_millions, tunnel)) +
scale_y_log10() +
geom_point()
## Warning in scale_y_log10(): log-10 transformation introduced infinite values.
Stations
data %>%
ggplot(aes(cost_km_millions, as.factor(year))) +
geom_boxplot()
city
data %>%
group_by(city) %>%
filter(n() > 5) %>%
ungroup() %>%
# Plot
ggplot(aes(cost_km_millions, fct_reorder(city, cost_km_millions))) +
geom_point() +
labs(y = "City of Transit Project")
EDA shortcut
# Step 1: Prepare data
data_binarized_tbl <- data %>%
select(-e) %>%
binarize()
data_binarized_tbl %>% glimpse()
## Rows: 436
## Columns: 88
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## $ city__Bangkok <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
## $ city__Barcelona <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
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## $ city__Madrid <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
## $ city__Mumbai <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
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## $ start_year__2018_Inf <dbl> 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, …
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## $ end_year__2016_2020 <dbl> 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, …
## $ end_year__2020_2023 <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
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## $ length__28.2_Inf <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
## $ `tunnel_per__0.00%` <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
## $ `tunnel_per__100.00%` <dbl> 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, …
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## $ cost_km_millions__5.21539741232945_5.49422035213027 <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
## $ cost_km_millions__5.49422035213027_Inf <dbl> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …
# Step 2: Correlate
data_corr_tbl <- data_binarized_tbl %>%
correlate(cost_km_millions__5.49422035213027_Inf)
data_corr_tbl
## # A tibble: 88 × 3
## feature bin correlation
## <fct> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 cost_km_millions 5.49422035213027_Inf 1
## 2 cost_km_millions -Inf_4.89022561868544 -0.333
## 3 cost_km_millions 4.89022561868544_5.21539741232945 -0.333
## 4 cost_km_millions 5.21539741232945_5.49422035213027 -0.333
## 5 country US 0.304
## 6 country CN -0.264
## 7 real_cost -Inf_1168.71 -0.211
## 8 country -OTHER 0.196
## 9 city New_York 0.187
## 10 real_cost 5540.5525_Inf 0.180
## # ℹ 78 more rows
# Step 3: Plot
data_corr_tbl %>%
plot_correlation_funnel()
## Warning: ggrepel: 44 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps