The goal of the Short Term Rentals Dashboard in proy01.Rmd is to make it easy for potential renters in Cambridge, MA to access an interactive and specified visualization of available properties for short term rent in Cambridge. This data is compiled from Short Term Rentals in Cambridge, MA, published by Open Data - City of Cambridge, MA. Short term rental (STR) will be defined as the rental of a dwelling unit of bedroom as residential accommodation for less than 30 consecutive days. The dashboard includes both a Map (Spatial Distribution) and a Boxplot (Statistical Analysis) available to visualize and subset the data.
From the homepage, you can toggle to Spatial Distribution to visualize a map of properties of interest.
- Select zipcodes to view properties in a specified subset of zipcodes
- Select Short-Term Rental types to specify properties of interest
- Select property types for a range of family homes
- Select the desired number of bedrooms, total occupants, and bathrooms
- Include various services the property is listed on, if applicable
- Update to visualize specified properties
Alternatively, you can toggle to Statistical Analysis to visualize a boxplot of properties of interest.
- Select variables of interest to view properties by the selected variable
- Select grouping variable to group properties together by this specified variable
- Select zipcodes to view properties in a specified subset of zipcodes
- Select Short-Term Rental types to specify properties of interest
- Select property types for a range of family homes
- Update to visualize specified properties
We have also included an About section in our dashboard for more information on definitions of the variables, specifics of the data set, and a list of the developers behind this dashboard.
This dashboard was created by Michael Sam, Joslyn Fu, and Delina Irgau for Harvard Statistics 108.