Project Summary: What's for rent in San Diego and beyond?
Whether financial, political, or social -- data's true power lies in its ability to answer questions definitively. Python requests, APIs, and JSON traversals were used to answer the question: "What's for rent in San Diego and surrounding areas? "
Python scripts, matplotlib, pandas and mongoDB were used in this project to visualize the the rental listings on https://sandiego.craigslist.org/ housing listings.
A series of plots were created to summarize the listings:
- Most expensive zip codes
- Least expensive zip codes
- Most expensive listing by zip code and category
- Least expensive listings by zip code and category
- Average price per square foot by zip code
- Price distribution across all zip codes
- Price distribution of Escondido 92033
- Most listings by category
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Observations
- Rancho Santa Fe has the most expensive listing at $30,000 and most expensive average listing price
- Escondido has the most expensive and least expensive listings (different area codes 92029 expensive, 92030 not expensive)
- Escondido (92033) has the most rental listings posted based on the listings we scraped since the project inception (2/20/2021)
Rancho Santa Fe 92091
Rancho Santa Fe was by far the most expensive listing and average listing we scraped.
- Avg Listing Price: $21,200
- Number of listings 3
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Python scripts and matplotlib were used in this project to visualize rental listings prices, categories and square footage of listings in San Diego and surrounding areas.
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