42 - More computer configurations and finding data sources

Last updated Nov 12, 2022 Edit Source

• Daily log

Today I spent some time using chezmoi to save my dotfiles after having to begrudgingly re-setup my computer after bricking it. Outside of that, I didn’t make a lot of visible progress on my hackathon project, but I found a couple of data sources that I think will be useful:

Basically how far does your money go in an area for housing.

• Median income by census tract from census.gov
• I was finally able to download the home price index from Zillow on the zip level, and I downloaded the zip codes map from opendatasoft.com. Next will be to do the same tiling that I’m doing on the census tracts on that data.

I need to use the APIs from the hackathon, so I’m going to pull credit card spending and employment levels from the Rearc API to show economic activity.

I also continued to run the tiling program on my work laptop. It’s been working for almost 6 hours and is probably about half done.

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