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This is the third or so time this blog has been posted to HN and every time people ask where they got their data and every time there is no response. This time, some of their data doesn't look so good, at least with the boundaries on the map being all messed up. Also it's not clear if they adjust for inflation.

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(I work at Priceonomics)

Sorry to hear the map boundaries are looking weird to you.

We're using US Census boundary shapefiles to draw the city limits. This is how the map should appear: http://i.imgur.com/xk8WI6Q.png - does it look different on your end?

Email me if there's anything else I can do -- omar@priceonomics.com.

You completely (again!) ignored his question about where you get your data from. That was extremely rude of you.

Agreed, but one wonders if perhaps they did something like scrape Craigslist for it (which might make sense but totally be in violation of the ToS for a very litigious company)

Is it really rude to not answer a question? I guess it is a little rude to ignore it. He could say something like, "I'm sorry, but I can't answer that question."

I sold the data to him from my white van.

It would look a lot clearer if you didn't overlay the colors over water sections, but limited them to land only.

Downtown SF just looks... weird. As do a bunch of other sections. A strange line going down the bay parting the water. It makes it a lot more confusing than necessary.

Noted - thanks for your feedback.

Exactly.

Where's your data from?

Your map kind of cuts off Los Gatos at the bottom. We're still allowed in the Bay Area club, right? :-)

Los Altos and Los Altos Hills are two different cities. In some places you treat them separately, in other places you appear to be lumping them together, possibly because they share zip codes. Rents in Los Altos Hills are in the stratosphere, probably because of the minimum 1 acre lot size.

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