ACI Journal Articles
Title
The Spatially Conscious Machine Learning Model
Document Type
Article
USMA Research Unit Affiliation
Army Cyber Institute
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
Successfully predicting gentrification could have many social and commercial applications; however, real estate sales are difficult to predict because they belong to a chaotic system comprised of intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics, perceived value, and market speculation. Using New York City real estate as our subject, we combine modern techniques of data science and machine learning with traditional spatial analysis to create robust real estate prediction models for both classification and regression tasks. We compare several cutting edge machine learning algorithms across spatial, semispatial, and nonspatial feature engineering techniques, and we empirically show that spatially conscious machine learning models outperform nonspatial models when married with advanced prediction techniques such as Random Forests, generalized linear models, gradient boosting machines, and artificial neural networks.
Peer Reviewed
1
Web Link
https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sam.11440
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