I use Python 3 and Jupyter Notebooks to generate plots and equations with linear regression on Kaggle data. I checked the correlations and built a basic machine learning model with this dataset.

Simple linear regression is commonly used in forecasting and financial analysis—for a company to tell how a change in the GDP could affect sales, for example. Microsoft Excel and other software ...

Figure 1: The results of multiple linear regression depend on the correlation of the predictors, as measured here by the Pearson correlation coefficient r (ref. 2).