## Regional topic: Regression models for pumpkin prices in North America
In North America, pumpkins are often carved into scary faces for Halloween. Let's discover more about these fascinating vegetables!
## What you will learn
In this section, you will get set up to begin machine learning tasks, including configuring Visual Studio code to manage notebooks, the common environment for data scientists. You will discover Scikit-Learn, a library for machine learning, and you will build your first models, focusing on Regression models in this chapter.
The pumpkin dataset is suggested by [this project on Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/usda/a-year-of-pumpkin-prices) and its data is sourced from the [Specialty Crops Terminal Markets Standard Reports](https://www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/fv-report-config-step1?type=termPrice) distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture. This data is in the public domain.