Train times v. house prices: the commuter belt, on a graph

Posted by on Oct 13, 2011 in life-hacking, transport, visualisation | 10 Comments

We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping. As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. Specifically, I’ve scraped travel times to London by train versus house prices, to examine the theory that houses get much cheaper once you escape ...