I’ve been teaching classes on home-buying for years and always talk about the tight positive relationship between perceived school quality and single-family homes prices. Here, using data from the US Census (American Community Survey), the MA Department of Education, and…
I recently built a Home Price Estimator in Rails to replace a 3rd party service that couldn’t be customized. It uses the Zillow API to obtain a home value “Zestimate” along with a high and low Zestimates. It provides users with…
I’ve been working with some visualization tools lately. This one uses Venngage and data from the Census (American Community Survey). You can scroll over the image to get detailed data. May marks the beginning of the peak rental and buying…