Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps Transcripts
Chapter: App 9: Real Estate Analysis App
Lecture: Introduction to the Real Estate Data Miner App
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It's time for application number 9. This one I am calling the real estate data miner app. So what we are going to do we are going to take
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a whole bunch of historical real estate data feed it to this application, and be able to answer pretty interesting questions
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like what was the average price of a two bedroom house sold in this region during this time, things like that, so what it's going to look like- well,
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you'll see something like this, standard header, and it's going to load up a comma separate value, a csv file of historical real estate data
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and it will detect the header so we'll use this, basically define the columns that we'll use to answer our questions later,
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it can be somewhat dynamic with this, and then we can answer questions like what was the most expensive house sold period,
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well that's some kind of 4 bedroom, 3 bath house for almost million dollars in Wilton And the least expensive house was oh my gosh,
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like a house for a 1500 dollars, 3 bedroom 3 bath in Lincoln. Something is going on there, who knows the history of that one.
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But the average price was 234,000 dollars for 2.9 on average bedroom, 1.8 bath on average, right.
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And if we restrict ourselves to say well let's just talk about only 2 bedroom houses and give me some stats on that,
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well the average price was 165,000 dollars obviously two bedrooms in 2 bedroom house and 1.4 baths.
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So what are we going to focus on when we build this app. The primary thing we are going to look at is something called
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list comprehensions and something very closely related to them called generator expression. These two Pythonic concepts allow you to take
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what would otherwise be loops and condense them down into much shorter, more concise types of set based operations,
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in some sense it will move from procedural programming to declarative programming.
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We also get to look again at the string and representation magic methods, string parsing, we'll specifically look at the csv file format
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but this concept could be applied to many different types of formats really, somewhat like we saw in app number 8,
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we'll be able to use these generator expressions and data pipelines similar to the way we did for generator methods.
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You can think of generator expressions as simplified inline generator methods if you will. Finally, we will get a chance to look at a challenge
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of writing code that has to run on both, on Python 2 and Python 3, as you saw, we are talking about averages and there is a nice statistics module
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that was introduced in Python 3.4, it is not available in Python 2, so what will we do there? Well, you'll see that we can write the same basic code
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and just adjust our imports and make it work.