andrewlis.blog

Inference from Conjecture

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

At the start of every year, I do a lengthy talk about what's going on in the real estate market in BC for my 'day job'. For those who enjoy this stuff, here's another one for you!

Rework

Worth Reading

Self Improvement

Business

For some, this book might come across as being highly unorthodox. For me, it helped me realize that maybe my approach to 'doing business' is not totally crazy.

Let There P Doubt

Research Papers

Worth Reading

Random

Is it time to toss out p-values? I think it wouldn't hurt. Apparently there's a growing movement of other researchers and statisticians who (generally) agree.

Election Projection

R Stats

Open Data

Open Source

It's election time here in British Columbia, and I figured I'd try to build a SUPER SIMPLE forecasting model to project the winner - we'll see how well my model holds up!

Cursing Cursor

Open Source

Artificial Intelligence

Python

Took me a week or so to figure out a weird bug with the Cursor IDE and python virtual environments. This post might help someone else with the same issue out there.

Scaling Up with R and Arrow Book

Worth Reading

R Stats

Open Source

In a first for this blog, I'm starting a running tag with worthy reads that might interest other technically-minded individuals.

Vancouver Real Estate Podcast - 3

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

Podcast

If you like the Vancouver Real Estate Podcast and want to hear me yammer on it, this post is for you!

Positively Positron

R Stats

Python

Open Source

Are you a polyglot R / Python coder, constantly switching between R Studio and VS Code? Welcome to the promised land.

Wild West House Prices

Real Estate

Open Data

Ever wondered how home prices have evolved since the Wild West era? I have. And now there's some data that can answer that question.

Throwing Shade

Open Source

Random

Ever wanted to analyze how much shade a location gets at some particular time of day or season? This post might be for you!

Dreaming in Technicolor

DataViz

Open Source

Research Papers

Looking for a color palette generator that can handle just about anything you can throw at it? Here's an interesting one that takes a highly technical approach to the subject.

Perspective Goes a Long Way

Research Papers

Real Estate

Open Data

I came across some real-estate data going back 500 years. How's that for a rare find?!

What Goes Down, Must Come Up

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

If you're interested in watching me wade through an extremely chart-heavy presentation of data relating to the commercial real-estate market in BC - this post might be for you.

Theory, in Practice

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

Sometimes a lot of people want a theory to be true. But wanting it to be true doesn't necessarily make it true. And there's often a big difference between theory, and practice.

Arrow on Manjaro

R Stats

Open Source

Are you an R user running Manjaro Linux? Having trouble installing Apache Arrow to your R library? Right this way.

You Can't Escape Time

Open Data

DataViz

As you read this, you're not getting any younger. And neither is anyone else. It got me thinking about what that means for the global population.

Vancouver Real Estate Podcast - 2

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

Podcast

The guys from the Vancouver Real Estate Podcast invited me back to talk some more. You're probably as surprised by the invitation as I was!

BC ParcelMap to CSV

Open Data

Geospatial

Python

A simple python script to pull BC ParcelMap database and convert to .csv file.

The Million Dollar Wall

The hidden barrier, laying in plain sight.

Real Estate

YouTube

Housing affordability is a tricky topic and there aren't many easy solutions... but what if there was something that might help, and all it'd take to do it is the stroke of a pen?

Vancouver Real Estate Podcast - 1

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

Podcast

As a result of my "corporate" job, I was graciously invited on to the Vancouver Real Estate Podcast for an interesting discussion about (residential) housing markets and my thinking about it all.

Breathe Easy

Open Data

DataViz

The pandemic was a messed up time that didn't have a lot of positives. But there was actually a time during it that went somewhat unnoticed, when we all collectively breathed a little easier.

Hugging Face

Open Data

Artificial Intelligence

Python

If you don't know about Hugging Face, now you know.

Dysfunction by Design

Urban Land Economics

Real Estate

YouTube

I did a talk (for work) that goes into my thoughts about the housing system in Canada, and more specifically in BC. It was recorded and up on YT for anyone to watch.

Google Mobility Trends

Open Data

DataViz

Are we back yet? Taking a look at some mobility trend data for Canada, courtesy of Google.

So... I've been slacking

Random

I've put this blog on a bit of a hiatus while I focus on other things in life. This post is just an update/explainer of what you can expect from this site going forward.