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Let's explore generating features using existing ones. In the midwest of the U.S. many single family homes have extra land around them for green space. In this example you will create a new feature called 'YARD_SIZE', and then see if the new feature is correlated with our outcome variable.

Create a new column using withColumn() called LOT_SIZE_SQFT and convert ACRES to square feet by multiplying by acres_to_sqfeet the conversion factor.
Create another new column called YARD_SIZE by subtracting FOUNDATIONSIZE from LOT_SIZE_SQFT.
Run corr() on each of the independent variables YARD_SIZE, FOUNDATIONSIZE, LOT_SIZE_SQFT against the dependent variable SALESCLOSEPRICE. Does new feature show a stronger correlation than either of its components?

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