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How Big Data Played a Part in the 2007 and 2008 Real Estate Market

In hindsight, Big Data could have played a crucial role in preventing the housing bubble of 2007 and 2008. There was an unbelievable confidence in the increasing prices of single-family homes. They could have used Google searches that focus on real estate housing. It could have an enormous impact on those years. Was it possible for them to prevent the housing bubble if they know how to use Big Data? But at that time, the power of Big Data is not yet well-known and appreciated. They are already using Google searches at that time. If they only knew how to use Big Data in those days, the financial crisis will not happen. Indications That a Housing Bubble Is Showing In May 2006, Fortune Magazine published a report. The report discussed the possibility of a housing bubble in the United States. The report said, “The great housing bubble has finally started to deflate . . . In many, once sizzling markets around the country, accounts of dropping list prices have replaced tales of wa...

How to Find Real Estate Demand Online

There are many factors that have major or minor effects on real estate demand. In this tech age, people rely on the internet, which then leads to petabytes or exabytes of data. That is how you find real estate demand online. But how exactly do you do it without buying thousands of dollars worth of data? Finding the Real Estate Demand Data you Need Real estate companies gather data by creating websites that are designed to find demand. It can be quite expensive, but with time you can get the real estate demand data that you need. Without a website, you can do community surveys using social media or using newsletter subscriptions. You can also use search engine optimization and ad placements to see how many people are searching for specific keywords related to real estate demand. There are many ways to collect data to study demand, but it should be based on your budget, location, and the ability of your audience to reach you. Watch Out for Changes in the Local and Interna...

How Big Data Was Used by the Romans for Properties

Big data has technically been around since the beginning of records of communication. Cave drawings? Data. Records of a new language? Big data. Then came math. And that’s when cave data became big data. There is no specific record as to when big data can be defined, but we can look at the Roman Empire for some of the earliest recordings of big data. Back then, they used the Roman Census approach. This newfangled concept in that era means that people were able to process large amounts of data. What is the Roman Census approach? How did they collect a huge amount of big data? The Roman Census approach is still working today, but did you know how it began? Taxes. The Romans wanted to tax their citizens and they needed data, namely, a census. Due to the number of Roman citizens, the higher-ups found that it would be impossible to get all the data they need by going through the citizens one by one. For one thing, a huge line of millions of Roman citizens would not be very prac...