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Oakland Real Estate – Full EDA

May 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Oakland Real Estate – Full EDA

May 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Oakland Real Estate Prices (Multi-Tenant)

April 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Oakland Real Estate Prices (Multi-Tenant)

April 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Advanced choroplethr – Customized Bins

April 5, 2017 | [email protected]

Choroplethr is great to use straight out of the box, but sometimes you’ll want to fix up some of the details.  In a previous post, I showed how to modify the color scheme.  Now I’ll explain how to set up customized bins when using choroplethr.  If you just ...
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Advanced choroplethr – Customized Bins

April 5, 2017 | [email protected]

Choroplethr is great to use straight out of the box, but sometimes you’ll want to fix up some of the details.  In a previous post, I showed how to modify the color scheme.  Now I’ll explain how to set up customized bins when using choroplethr.  If you just ...
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Advanced choroplethr – Changing Color Scheme

March 30, 2017 | [email protected]

The choroplethr package is outstanding and fairly easy to use, but some functionality is not obvious.  The built-in color scheme is quite good, but you might want to switch colors at some point.  My first attempt at changing the color scheme can be found below (previous post has basic code ...
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Advanced choroplethr – Changing Color Scheme

March 30, 2017 | [email protected]

The choroplethr package is outstanding and fairly easy to use, but some functionality is not obvious.  The built-in color scheme is quite good, but you might want to switch colors at some point.  My first attempt at changing the color scheme can be found below (previous post has basic code ...
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Bay Area Real Estate (cont.)

September 8, 2014 | [email protected]

Previously, I posted a short post about recent detached single house prices in San Leandro and Hayward areas.  I received a little more data (sales data from the past month), so I thought it would be a good time for … Continue reading →
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pbapply()

August 29, 2014 | [email protected]

In my previous post, I wrote about displaying a Windows progress bar (useful when going through long for-loops).  In the comments, a couple of users recommended that I check out pbapply().  This function is great too (and works on all … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Hayward/San Leandro Housing Prices

August 17, 2014 | [email protected]

I’ve done a previous post about the salaries of data scientists, but now I’m going to look at one of the negative sides of all the high salaries generated by the tech field in the Bay Area – real estate prices. A … Continue reading →
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Data Science Article on Mashable

January 1, 2014 | [email protected]

I was recently interviewed by Todd Wasserman (an editor for Mashable) for an article about data science.  Todd asked me a bunch of simple questions about the day-to-day life of a data scientist.  I described my experiences working for a Bay … Continue reading →
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