CMPT 353 Project — Figures and RQ3 Analysis

Tianxi Huang

This repo generates the report figures and runs the RQ3 statistical analysis from a single cleaned dataset.

What’s included

• graph.py: creates publication-ready figures and saves them to reports/figures/.
• project.ipynb: end-to-end notebook (ETL/modeling/analysis) and saves summary CSVs for plotting.
• cleaned_data/: input CSVs for figures (e.g., top_predictors_rq1.csv, roi_merged_full.csv, listings_unified_clean.csv) and RQ3 outputs saved by the notebook (rq3_price_summary.csv, rq3_license_share.csv, etc.).
• reports/figures/: output images.

Setup (Windows PowerShell)

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Required folders

Ensure these folders exist (create them if missing):

# from the project root
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force .\cleaned_data | Out-Null
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force .\reports\figures | Out-Null

All dependencies tested on Window PC.

Steps: run the notebook first, then build figures

Option A — VS Code:

• Open project.ipynb in VS Code.
• Select the Python kernel you installed (Python 3.12 recommended).
• Run All cells top-to-bottom. This will produce the RQ3 CSVs in cleaned_data/ automatically.
• When it finishes, run:

  python .\graph.py

Option B — Jupyter:

• Launch Jupyter
• Open project.ipynb, use Run All, wait for completion, then in a terminal run python .\graph.py.

Generate Figures

From the project root:

python .\graph.py

This will create:

• fig_rq1_rf_importance.png
• fig_rq2_roi_top10_all.png
• fig_rq2_roi_top_vancouver.png
• fig_rq2_roi_top_victoria.png
• fig_rq3_avg_price_prepost.png (requires cleaned_data/rq3_price_summary.csv)
• fig_rq3_license_share_prepost.png (requires cleaned_data/rq3_license_share.csv)

Troubleshooting

• If geospatial installs fail, you can still run RQ1/RQ2/RQ3 figures without GeoPandas. Only the mapping cells in the notebook need GeoPandas/Shapely.
• Ensure cleaned_data/listings_unified_clean.csv is present; otherwise, the RQ3 cell cannot run.

License

Free to use/modify.