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Exercise

Log10 transformation of house size

You just saw that the predictor variable sqft_living is right-skewed and hence a log base 10 transformation is warranted to unskew it. Just as we transformed the outcome variable price to create log10_price in the video, let's do the same for sqft_living.

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  • Using the mutate() function from dplyr, create a new column log10_size and assign it to house_prices_2 by applying a log10() transformation to sqft_living.