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Linear Regression Model

Insurance cost prediction using linear regression

In this assignment we're going to use information like a person's age, sex, BMI, no. of children and smoking habit to predict the price of yearly medical bills. This kind of model is useful for insurance companies to determine the yearly insurance premium for a person. The dataset for this problem is taken from: https://www.kaggle.com/mirichoi0218/insurance

We will create a model with the following steps:

  1. Download and explore the dataset
  2. Prepare the dataset for training
  3. Create a linear regression model
  4. Train the model to fit the data
  5. Make predictions using the trained model

This assignment builds upon the concepts from the first 2 lectures. It will help to review these Jupyter notebooks:

As you go through this notebook, you will find a ??? in certain places. Your job is to replace the ??? with appropriate code or values, to ensure that the notebook runs properly end-to-end . In some cases, you'll be required to choose some hyperparameters (learning rate, batch size etc.). Try to experiment with the hypeparameters to get the lowest loss.
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# Uncomment and run the commands below if imports fail
# !conda install numpy pytorch torchvision cpuonly -c pytorch -y
# !pip install matplotlib --upgrade --quiet
!pip install jovian --upgrade --quiet
WARNING: You are using pip version 20.1; however, version 20.1.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the '/opt/conda/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
# First off all we have to import all the libraries which we need for working with the considered problem statement.
import torch
import jovian
import torchvision
import torch.nn as nn
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torchvision.datasets.utils import download_url
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, TensorDataset, random_split
#Here we are giving a name to the project which will we be used while uploading/commiting the file to jovian.ml

project_name='02-insurance-linear-regression-assignment' # will be used by jovian.commit

Step 1: Download and explore the data

Let us begin by downloading the data. We'll use the download_url function from PyTorch to get the data as a CSV (comma-separated values) file.
CSV files are useful while working with datasets and helps in converting the datasets to the format which will be helpful for training our model.