Data Analytics and Visualization
RE 519, Runstad Department of Real Estate, University of Washington, Autumn 2025
Monday & Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:50pm, Mechanical Engineering Building 245
Haoyu Yue (Pre-doctoral Instructor), [email protected], Schedule Office Hours
Resources
Reference Text
- Real Estate Analysis in the Information Age: Techniques for Big Data and Statistical Modeling - by Kimberly Winson-Geideman, Andy Krause, Clifford A. Lipscomb, Nick Evangelopoulos (2018).
- Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics - by Nathan Yau (2024)
- Visualization Analysis & Design - by Tamara Munzner(2014)
- Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction - by Kieran Healy (2019)
- Modern Data Science with R - by Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton (2024)
- Posit Cheatsheets for R
Tools and Softwares
- Tidyverse (R) - a collection of R packages designed for data science
- ggplot2 (R) - a graphics language for R
- Shiny (R) - R package to create interactive web applications
- Pandas (Python) - a package data for manipulation and analysis in Python
- Matplotlib (Python) - free library for visualizations in Python
- Vega-Altair (Python) - Jupyter-friendly Python API for Vega-Lite
- Seaborn (Python) - a package for statistical data visualization, built on top of matplotlib
- Tableau for Students – a free Tableau license for students
- Tableau Public – a free platform to explore, create, share data visualizations, and connect with data analysts worldwide.
- Adobe Color - free color palette generator
- Viz Palette - picking colors for data visualizations
- Visual Studio Code - a popular integrated development environment (IDE) and code editor
- Anaconda - platform for data science, simplifying the development and deployment of projects
- Windows Terminal - command-line shells for Windows
- GitHub - a developer platform to create, store, manage, and share code
Datasets
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- Assessor History - By ATTOM (UW login required)
- Automated Valuation Model (AVM) Data - By ATTOM (UW login required)
- Census Bureau - American Community Survey
- Census Bureau - Housing Datasets
- Community Information Layout - By ATTOM (UW login required)
- Data Center of Redfin
- Dewey Data Platform (UW login required)
- Dubai Pulse Open Data
- Dubai Real Estate Dataset
- Energy Star Certified Buildings and Plants
- FHFA House Price Index
- Federal Housing Datasets
- HUD (US Housing & Urban Development) Open Data / GIS
- HUD (US Housing & Urban Development) User Datasets
- Historical Housing Prices Project - FRB Philadelphia
- Housing Data Collection - FRB St. Louis
- Housing Data from Zillow
- Inside Airbnb Data
- King County Assessments Data
- King County GIS Open Data
- King County Residential Sales and Properties
- National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)
- Pre-Foreclosure History - By ATTOM (UW login required)
- Puget Sound Regional Council Data Portal
- Real Estate Listings for Commercial Properties - By REsimplifi (UW login required)
- Seattle Open Data Portal
- United States Building Permits - By Builty (UW login required)
- United States Residential Rental Data - By RentHub (UW login required)
- Urban Institute Data Catalog
- Washington Center for Real Estate Research
- Washington State Geospatial Open Data Portal
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