Way back like 8 or 9 years ago — I analyzed Seattle housing data and got a few job offers along the way from doing it.
What I did was scrape housing data from Craigslist and plotted a regression model to figure out which neighborhoods were most expensive. Then everyone on Hackernew and Reddit used it as way to complain about housing.
But part of the reason why I couldn’t practically use the model to find good deals was because very important features about an apartment were rather difficult to extract.
