Description

This project is an messy, unstructured exploration of data relating to the Boston Housing Market

Goals and Principles

The project is going to require many little decisions which will add up to the (currently) unknowable outcome. Both top down, goal-oriented thinking and bottom-up, principle-oriented thinking must drive these decisions. Both are wishy-washy and meaningless without an explicit decision of what laudable goals/principles are being de-prioritized to allow sufficient focus. Here are my goals for the project, in priority order:

Goals

1. Learning to do data journalism with data combined from public sources
   1. Not to do advanced analysis or reveal groundbreaking truths
2. Catalog what quality data is available about Boston and Real Estate
   1. Not to do heavy lifting on poorly formatted data
3. Get a deeper insight into the process of living in Boston itself
   1. Not to comment on national trends

Principles

1. At an architectural level, don't worry about generalizing if that's the only way you can make progress initially
   1. There is a lot of value in thinking ahead about scalability and consistency for big projects, but this is not a big project, nor are any functions designed to be dependencies for other projects
2. The files will conform to PEP8 standards
   1. I will Not prioritize additional analysis in place of cleanup
   2. This prioritization of solid analysis is orthogonal to anti-Goal 1.1, de-prioritizes complex analysis
   3. This prioritization of local best practices is an exception to the de-prioritization of architectural best practices in Principle 1