duke_forest {openintro}

Sale prices of houses in Duke Forest, Durham, NC

Description

Data on houses that were recently sold in the Duke Forest neighborhood of Durham, NC in November 2020.

Usage

duke_forest

Format

A data frame with 98 rows and 13 variables.

address

Address of house.

price

Sale price, in USD.

bed

Number of bedrooms.

bath

Number of bathrooms.

area

Area of home, in square feet.

type

Type of home (all are Single Family).

year_built

Year the home was built.

heating

Heating sytem.

cooling

Cooling system (other or central).

parking

Type of parking available and number of parking spaces.

lot

Area of the entire property, in acres.

hoa

If the home belongs to an Home Owners Association, the associted fee (NA otherwise).

url

URL of the listing.

Source

Data were collected from Zillow in November 2020.

Examples

library(ggplot2)

# Number of bedrooms and price
ggplot(duke_forest, aes(x = as.factor(bed), y = price)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  labs(
    x = "Number of bedrooms",
    y = "Sale price (USD)",
    title = "Homes for sale in Duke Forest, Durham, NC",
    subtitle = "Data are from November 2020"
  )

# Area and price
ggplot(duke_forest, aes(x = area, y = price)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    x = "Area (square feet)",
    y = "Sale price (USD)",
    title = "Homes for sale in Duke Forest, Durham, NC",
    subtitle = "Data are from November 2020"
  )