Case study:
Data City: Integration and visualisation of spatial and socio-economic
data in an urban context
Data set 2; house prices/sales
The second data set represents the prices
of the houses as recorded in the Scottish Land Registry at time of sale,
between the years 1996 and 2001.
The prices were represented in the model
using the following scale:
HEIGHT (meters) = PRICE (thousands of £)/2.
For example a house priced £90,000
is 30 meters high. When multiple prices appeared for the same unit number
we calculated the average price.
Fig. 15 Data set 2, house prices, looking from North West
Fig. 16 Data set 2, house prices, looking from South East
Fig. 17 Data set 2, house prices, looking from South West
Fig. 18 Data set 2, house prices, looking from North East
Assessment of data set 2
One would have expected the prices to increase
as one moved further West nearer the High Street (Byres Road). This is
not quite the case. First because the area in question is probably too
small and homogeneous to record these changes and second because there
has been extensive refurbishment activity on the older buildings of the
Eastern end.
The picture we get is of rather homogeneous
prices across the area with exceptional high points which correspond to
recently refurbished or new buildings.
