Downloading the King County House sales dataset

We can't build a model without a dataset.  We will download our data in this section.

Getting ready

Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/) is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions in which statisticians and data miners compete to produce the best models for predicting and describing the datasets uploaded by companies and users. The King County House Sales dataset contains records of 21,613 houses sold in King County, New York between 1900 and 2015. The dataset also contains 21 different variables such as location, zip code, number of bedrooms, area of the living space, and so on, for each house.

How to do it...

1. The dataset can be accessed from the following website: https://www.kaggle.com/harlfoxem/housesalesprediction. The dataset is from the public records of King County and is freely available to download and use in any analysis.

2. Once you arrive at the website, you can click on the Download button, as shown in the following...