@article{2017:peshave:policy_baltimore_housing_prices,type={article},doi={10.5281/zenodo.884488},journal={Data
for Policy 2017: Government by Algorithm?},publisher={Zenodo},address={London,
UK},id={2017:peshave:policy_baltimore_housing_prices},year={2017},month={09},day={04},date={2017-09-04},title={Baltimore
Housing Prices Disparity For Comparable Neighborhoods: A Case For Enabling Interactive,Visual Exploration Of
Neighborhoods},author={Peshave, Akshay and Memon, Siraj and Chavan, Vedmurtty and Oates,
Tim},url={https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.884488}}
Baltimore Housing Prices Disparity For Comparable Neighborhoods: A Case For Enabling Interactive,Visual Exploration Of Neighborhoods
Peshave, Akshay; Memon, Siraj; Chavan, Vedmurtty; Oates, Tim
Data for Policy 2017: Government by Algorithm? 2017 September
Multi-label ClassificationCorrelation AnalysisClusteringData VisualizationBaltimore CityHousing and Community Development
ABSTRACT : As government agencies
increasingly make public data available online, it provides opportunities to leverage such data
for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. One domain where these technological
capabilities are applicable is real-estate development and housing market domain. This domain is
of interest to home buyers, investors and policy makers. Diverse and varying preferences of
residents of a geography are latent behavioral factors that affect residential property prices.
This paper describes a geographical area agnostic housing typology classifier for Baltimore City
communities or neighborhoods. Further, it discussed correlation analysis and composite Vital
Signs scores to characterize city population perceptions of different community development
categories. These scores enable community clustering to investigate price disparity in
comparable communities based on configurable categories and year-on-year trend analysis. Various
visualization possibilities are discussed in conjunction with these approaches to make a case
for interactive, visual exploration of geographical communities which may be extended to
comparative analysis across geographies.