UK House Price Analysis 2024 🏠🦀

Overview

End-to-end data cleaning and exploratory analysis of 927k+ UK residential property transactions from official HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (2024).

Highlight: Identified a classic crab market 🦀 — lots of volatility but prices ended the year basically flat.

Visualizations

Distribution of house prices (log scale)

Monthly average price trend throughout 2024

How to Run

git clone https://github.com/kofimanu2403/uk-house-price-analysis.git
cd uk-house-price-analysis
./start.sh

What I Learned / Skills Demonstrated

• Cleaning messy real-world government data with pandas (handling missing values, data types, outliers)
• Exploratory data analysis and creating clear visualizations with matplotlib and seaborn
• Working with large CSV files and building reproducible project setups
• Turning raw data into meaningful insights (including spotting the crab market pattern)

Project Structure

• data_cleaning_analysis.ipynb — Main analysis + code
• price_distribution.png, price_trend_2024.png — Key visualizations
• start.sh — One-click environment launcher

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Beginner Data Analysis Portfolio Project