Following on from the previous Land Registry posts I've had a go at using the GoogleVis package to plot the data. So far my favourite method is the motion chart below. Although I need to make more equal sales areas as London ruins the x-axis a bit. The best view is the histogram view. Read More
Month: October 2016
Land Registry Part 2
In my first land registry post I imported a month’s worth of land registry data, named the rows and had a go at using the ggplot2 package to produce a number of nice looking charts. This time I want to progress a little further. My aims are, using the same dataset to:
- Look at the distribution of prices
- Look at the prices by different factors
- Initially just using factors in the land registry data
Land Registry Data
My computer has been struggling with some of the code I’ve been trying to run, it is pretty old and doesn’t have enough memory for large datasets in R. So rather than buy a better laptop I’ve set up an Amazon Web Service account and using this guide set up a computer so I don’t have to use mine. I’m only using the free one for now but if I want to have a go at processing something larger this will allow me to pay a small fee to use a more powerful machine for a short period of time.