ASSIGNMENT ONE
Data Exploration and Regression Analysis
Late submissions will incur a 10 marks penalty per day.
Weighting: 25% of the final course mark
Submission: When submitting the assessment the name and student ID must be indicated
on the front page of the report.
Note: This assignment must be completed individually, all work submitted must be entirely
your own.
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This assignment assesses your skills for data exploration and regression analysis of a dataset
using Python. You are required to describe characteristics of a given dataset with the help of
diagrams and statistical metrics, build a regression model and provide inference for your
regression model.
Preparation
Choose one of the datasets listed below. These datasets are selected from the UCI Machine
Learning repository. More information about the data is provided by UCI Maching Learning
repository website. You must carefully read this information to understand the dataset
attributes.
1. Beijing PM2.5 Data Data Set (2010-2014)
2. Beijing Multi-Site Air-Quality Data Data Set (2013-2017)
3. Electric power consumption Data Set
4. Istanbul stock exchange data set
5. Italian Air Quality Data Set
6. QSAR fish toxicity Data Set
7. Student Performance Data Set
Project Report – Basic Structure
Your final report must include the following sections and information. The word count gives
you an indication of the expected length for each section.
Title Page must include:
• Paper Code, Paper Name and Semester
• Project Title
• Student Name and ID
• Table of Contents, List of Figures and Tables
Deliverables:
Download your code as ‘Markdown’ and attach it as an appendix at the end of your report.
DO NOT use screenshots of your code.
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Task 1: Introduction (200-400 words) [10 marks]
Provide a statement of the problem, outlining the problem that your chosen dataset addresses.
The statement of the problem should briefly address the question: What is the problem that you
will investigate in this assignment?
Your introduction must describe:
• The aim of your work, what are you trying to achieve, and research questions you
attempted to answer.
• All assumptions that your data must meet.
Task 2: Data Exploration [20 marks]
This section of your report must discuss the dataset and any features which you consider to be
relevant to the analysis and modelling task.
• What is the data about?
• How many features (attributes), instances and what data types are these?
• Provide summary statistics of the continuous numerical features.
• Illustrate the features of your dataset using meaningful boxplots, histograms and
grouped scatter plots (remember, these plots allow you to analyse the individual
distribution of features, as well as the relationship between them).
• Explain what you can learn about the dataset from the diagrams. Is there any sign of
violation of assumption(s)? If yes, explain your approach to handle it before moving to
the next tasks?
Task 3: Correlation Analysis [15 marks]
Perform correlation analysis and provide correlation matrixes and plots. Discuss your findings
in terms of a) correlation between the independent variables (Multi-Collinearity) and b)
between independent variables and dependent variables. Is there any sign of violation of
assumption(s)? If yes, explain your approach to handling it before moving to the next task?
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Task 4: Linear Regression [25 marks]
Taking the result of Task 3 into consideration, perform multivariate regression using Python.
Provide the results including regression results, statistical significance metrics, and coefficients
tables from this model.
Task 5: Statistical Inference (300-400 words). [25 marks]
In this section, you are required to describe and analyse the results of your regression model.
Are all the assumptions made in Task 1 satisfied? Provide evidence to support your answer.
Compare your findings in Task 3’s with the coefficients table results generated in Task 4 and
discuss your findings.
There will be 5 marks for the presentation of the assignment including spelling and grammar,
layout, formatting, and readability of the figures.
Good luck!