In bcgov/housing-data-challenge-plotly: bcviz is not really an R package, but this is here to list its R dependencies.

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  echo = FALSE,
  message = FALSE,
  fig.align = "center"
)

Useful links:

• The suggested data sets
• The Challenge Overview
• Our Letter of Intent

Some thoughts

The app should obviously have some drill-down capabilities, where users can see overall trends, then zoom-in to reveal detailed information for specific region(s). However, as Figure \@ref(fig:regions) shows, there are many types of regions!

knitr::include_graphics("regions.png")

Eventually it may be useful to alter the type of region(s), but for now, it seems "regional districts" is the best default type.

Suggested data by region

This is a list of the suggested data, with additional information about granularity (w.r.t. geography and time) and links to the (possibly cleaned) data.

BC Stats

• Population Estimates (sample)
  • yearly/quarterly for all of BC, yearly for any type of region by sex and age group
• Population Projections (sample)
  • Same as for population estimates
• Households (sample)
• yearly for any type of region

DataBC Catalogue

• DataBC Catalogue

• Property Transfer Tax data (sample)

• weekly for province, development region, regional district, or municipals

City of Vancouver

• City of Vancouver Open Data catalogue
• Ho' boy, lots of good data, but only for Vancouver

Teranet & National Bank of Canada

• Teranet - National Bank National Composite House Price Index ™
• It provides an index only for the greater Vancouver and Victoria areas. We should find/do better!!

TransLink

• SkyTrain: travel times between stations
• Just for Vancouver and trapped in shitty pdfs

Statistics Canada

• 2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

• 2011 National Household Survey: Data tables

• Income and Housing

  • A variety of data tables are available, each summarizing different dimensions of housing and income-related data

• Commuting to work

  • Journey to Work Reference Guide

• Residential and Non-Residential Property Assessment Values

• Tables by subject: Residential construction

• Building permits, values by activity sector

• Housing starts, by province

• New Housing Price Index (NHPI)

Geography

ParcelMap BC

• ParcelMap BC Parcel Fabric at DataBC Catalogue

• ParcelMap BC at BC Land Titles & Survey Authority

• parcelMap BC at International Cadastral Information Society (ICIS)

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