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+title: Medical Insurance Cost Prediction
+emoji: 🏥
+colorFrom: blue
+colorTo: green
+sdk: streamlit
+sdk_version: 5.0.0
+app_file: app.py
+pinned: false
 license: mit
+short_description: A regression model predicting medical insurance charges based on demographic and health metrics.
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+
+# Medical Insurance Cost Prediction Using Machine Learning 🏥✨
+
+Welcome! This repository marks my **second (2nd)** hands-on Machine Learning project developed completely by myself.
+
+Moving forward from classification, this project focuses on a **Regression** task. I built a predictive model that estimates the medical insurance charges (`charges`) billed to an individual based on their demographic and health metrics.
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Dataset Overview
+
+The dataset used is `insurance.csv`, which consists of the following features:
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+- **age:** Age of the primary beneficiary.
+- **sex:** Insurance contractor gender (female, male).
+- **bmi:** Body Mass Index, providing an understanding of body weight relative to height.
+- **children:** Number of children covered by health insurance / Number of dependents.
+- **smoker:** Smoking status of the beneficiary (yes, no).
+- **region:** The beneficiary's residential area in the US (northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest).
+- **charges (Target Variable):** Individual medical costs billed by health insurance.
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ Tech Stack Used
+
+- **Programming Language:** Python 🐍
+- **Environment:** VS Code & Jupyter Notebook (`insurance.ipynb`)
+- **Libraries:** Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn
+- **Deployment:** Hugging Face Spaces & Gradio
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Project Objective & Learning Curve
+
+The goal of this project was to tackle continuous numerical data and learn how lifestyle choices (like smoking status) and physical attributes (like BMI) impact insurance costs.
+
+Through this project, I practiced:
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+1. Handling categorical text data using One-Hot Encoding / Label Encoding.
+2. Implementing Regression algorithms (like Linear Regression, Decision Tree Regressor, or Random Forest).
+3. Evaluating model performance using metrics like R-squared ($R^2$) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE).
+
+This is another confident step forward in my Data Science journey!
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 How to Run Locally
+
+### 1. Clone and Enter the Repository
+
+```bash
+git clone [https://huggingface.co/amirsoahil101/Medical_Insurance_Cost_Prediction_Using_Machine_Learningt](https://huggingface.co/amirsoahil101/Medical_Insurance_Cost_Prediction_Using_Machine_Learning)
+cd Insurance-Cost-Prediction-Using-Machine-Learning
+```