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.

For this Step-by-Step guide below, I will use the following table that contains data with a linear trend to explain how to do linear regression in Google Sheets using the LINEST function.

We’ll use data taken from a Pew Research Center 2016 post-election survey, and you can download the dataset for your own use here. We’ll discuss both bivariate regression, which has one outcome ...