If You Love Statistics....

April 10, 2008

I recently became aware of a web site that is compiling a huge data base from public information sources. The site is http://www.zipcodwstats.com/. I logged into the site and found some great graphs and a compact summary of housing, job, social and economic data. This site is not the first nor the only web site to create a database from government statistics. http://www.neighboroo.com/ has been around for several years. Other real estate specific sites such as http://www.trulia.com/ and http://www.propertyshark.com/ and several other home valuation sites have gathered a virtual warehouse of real estate information.

Chris Van Vleit is a technologist and founder of ZipCodeStats and has some exciting plans for future data that will track properties and/or communities as far back as 1969. He plans to provide information "all the way down to the block level."

I logged on and as a statistical geek I was fascinated with the information the site had accumulated for our local communities.