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House price growth and employment trends
IN THIS POST I WANT TO REVIEW RECENT EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSE PRICE TRENDS at the metropolitan statistical area. No R code here, but you can recreate the graphs we’ll explore today by following the code in...
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State house price growth trends: animated ribbon dataviz
TIME FOR A NEW HOUSE PRICE VISUALIZATIONS.In this post I’ll new way to visualize recent house price trends with R.DataWe’re going to be visualizing the Freddie Mac House Price Index. We talked about...
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Consumer prices, household debt
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT RECENT TRENDS IN CONSUMER PRICES AND HOUSEHOLD DEBT. Along the way we’ll refresh some visualizations of consumer prices (see here) and household debt (see here) we made last year,...
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Facet my geo!
TIME TO TRY OUT ANOTHER HOUSE PRICE VISUALIZATION.In this post we’ll try out a new way to visualize recent house price trends with R.Just this wekeend I saw a new package geofacet for organizing...
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Index starting points and dataviz
SO WE HAVE BEEN PLOTTING A LOT OF INDEX VALUES LATELY. It’s been great. But you have questions. Great questions.I got an interesting response to my house price dot chart over Twitter regarding the...
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Housing market recap
QUITE A LOT OF HOUSING DATA CAME OUT THIS WEEK. Let’s recap with some graphs.Mortgage rates back below 4 percentThe 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell back below 4 percent this week.New home salesNew...
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Housing supply, population, and house prices: The macro view
I travel around the United States giving talks, usually updates on recent trends in housing and mortgage markets. Often I get the chance to speak with real estate and mortgage professionals. For over...
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Housing supply, population, and house prices: Tableau Dashboard
I MADE A LITTLE TABLEAU VISUALIZATION TO ANLAYZE TRENDS in population, housing supply and house prices.If you like interactive dataviz, then the best thing might be to jump down below and explore. But...
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Housing affordability trends
HOW IS YOUR SUMMER GOING? Well okay, it’s not summer yet, but it sure is hot around where I am. Haven’t posted recently, so I’m going to share a couple of visualizations.Per usual, we’ll use R to...
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More on housing affordability
LET US FOLLOW UP ON YESTERDAY’S POST with some more analysis of housing affordability.Per usual, we’ll use R to generate the plots and I’ll share the code below.Measuring affordabilityFirst, let’s talk...
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Joyful dataviz
I TOOK SOME TIME OFF OVER THE SUMMER, away from data visualizations. It’s good to get away from time to time, but oh boy did I miss out.I wasn’t gone long, but in the short time I was gone people came...
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Mortgage Rate Kandinsky
THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET A BIT MORE ABSTRACT IN THIS SPACE. Today we make some Kandinsky-style images with R.This summer I was fortunate to spend some time at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The Pompidou...
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Joyswarm: Joyplot + beeswarm = awesome
I LOOK AT A LOT OF DATA and the thing about data is it’s not always what it seems to be. A lot of data are uncertain, and based on estimates.We’ve talked about this before. See for example, this post...
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Plotting recent house price trends with R
IT IS TIME FOR AN UPDATE ON HOUSE PRICE TRENDS AROUND THE UNITED STATES.I have been experimenting with some new visualizations and updating some old favorites. Let’s collect them here.This post will be...
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Adding an animation progress bar
I LIKE TO MAKE ANIMATED GIFS with my data. But frankly, sometimes they can be confusing. I got a good suggestion via twitter in response to a gif I shared there:This is very cool. Has anyone added a...
View ArticleThe 100 second crisis: Fear, public speaking, and what I do about it
The 100 second crisisAbout 100 seconds into every talk I give there comes a crisis.This note is about that crisis and how I try to overcome it. If you’re in a situation where you give a presentation or...
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Visualizing house price acceleration
I HAVE BEEN BUILDING SOME NEW VISUALIZATIONS to study house price trends. In particular I have been thinking about rates of change of rates of change, or accelerations and decelerations in house price...
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Forecasting is hard (work)
IN THIS POST WE WILL STUDY FORECASTS OF US ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.Niels Bohr quipped:Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.I’m a macroeconomist by training, and my day job...
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Forecasting is hard (work)-bonus charts
THIS POST IS A QUICK FOLLOW UP to my previous post on forecasting.I’m not going to add any R code or commentary on graphics, instead I’m just going to leave a few extra graphs related to the prior...
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Low-key dataviz
IN THIS POST I WANT TO REWORK SOME VISUALIZATIONS we’ve already made.Inspired by this compendium of clean graphics in R, I want to remake some of visualizations we made earlier this year in a low-key...
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