29 marzo 2021

Looking for a car that fits you perfectly?

Introduction

This presentation is done as part of the final course project for Developing Data Products course in the Data Science Specialization track by John Hopkins University on Coursera.

The Application

With this application you'll find different options which will help you choose a car that fits your own needs.

You may enter distance, price of gas, etc, and the app will display different cars options.

Additionally, you can also choose some characteristics of the cars that you desire: Cylinders, Displacement, Horse Power and Transmission.

Dataset Overview

The application uses 'mtcars' dataset from the 'datasets' package in R which lists down 10 aspects of automobile design and performance for 32 cars.

library(datasets)
data(mtcars)
head(mtcars, 4)
                mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4      21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
Mazda RX4 Wag  21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
Datsun 710     22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1
Hornet 4 Drive 21.4   6  258 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    3    1

Variable Correlation

library(datasets)
data(mtcars)
cor(mtcars)
            mpg        cyl       disp         hp        drat         wt
mpg   1.0000000 -0.8521620 -0.8475514 -0.7761684  0.68117191 -0.8676594
cyl  -0.8521620  1.0000000  0.9020329  0.8324475 -0.69993811  0.7824958
disp -0.8475514  0.9020329  1.0000000  0.7909486 -0.71021393  0.8879799
hp   -0.7761684  0.8324475  0.7909486  1.0000000 -0.44875912  0.6587479
drat  0.6811719 -0.6999381 -0.7102139 -0.4487591  1.00000000 -0.7124406
wt   -0.8676594  0.7824958  0.8879799  0.6587479 -0.71244065  1.0000000
qsec  0.4186840 -0.5912421 -0.4336979 -0.7082234  0.09120476 -0.1747159
vs    0.6640389 -0.8108118 -0.7104159 -0.7230967  0.44027846 -0.5549157
am    0.5998324 -0.5226070 -0.5912270 -0.2432043  0.71271113 -0.6924953
gear  0.4802848 -0.4926866 -0.5555692 -0.1257043  0.69961013 -0.5832870
carb -0.5509251  0.5269883  0.3949769  0.7498125 -0.09078980  0.4276059
            qsec         vs          am       gear        carb
mpg   0.41868403  0.6640389  0.59983243  0.4802848 -0.55092507
cyl  -0.59124207 -0.8108118 -0.52260705 -0.4926866  0.52698829
disp -0.43369788 -0.7104159 -0.59122704 -0.5555692  0.39497686
hp   -0.70822339 -0.7230967 -0.24320426 -0.1257043  0.74981247
drat  0.09120476  0.4402785  0.71271113  0.6996101 -0.09078980
wt   -0.17471588 -0.5549157 -0.69249526 -0.5832870  0.42760594
qsec  1.00000000  0.7445354 -0.22986086 -0.2126822 -0.65624923
vs    0.74453544  1.0000000  0.16834512  0.2060233 -0.56960714
am   -0.22986086  0.1683451  1.00000000  0.7940588  0.05753435
gear -0.21268223  0.2060233  0.79405876  1.0000000  0.27407284
carb -0.65624923 -0.5696071  0.05753435  0.2740728  1.00000000