HomestarRunner -- Status Check #1

[spockcodes]

Brief the class for 3-5 minutes on your teams progress.

• One team member briefs.
• Answer 3 questions:
  1. What have you done so far?
  2. What are you planning to do over the next 2 weeks?
  3. What road blocks do you have?

[spockcodes]

I like that you've started poking at methods and data. What's next?

[bdhitt]

Speaker: Caleb

Emailed the major realty companies online, waiting to hear from Realtor.com We tried scraping zip codes but consecutive numbers are not necessarily geographically adjacent Manually selecting nearby zip codes for bases, some bases have more than one zip code

Roadblocks:

• Data collection is so manual - having an issue with automating, reducing labor
• No published work on BAH

Figured out a lot of what didn't work

Questions/comments:

• Dan - ARCGIS database with a linking table of zip codes
• Towards Data Science - good alternatives to zip codes
• Bamieh - Google Maps have powerful, nearly free APIs where you can specify driving distance
• Zach - have you considered congressional districts or counties?
• MHA - military housing areas in BAH primer may be available to pull to get at ARCGIS polygons
• What three words? Entire planet mapped into 3 meter squares, associated with a unique 3 words
• Given we have the area, build a model that is robust to driving distance/commute area
• Proof of concept - do a few by hand, then do some investigation of Mechanical Turk