patrick.net

Just for kicks, I plotted the average price vs average rent for every zip code in the US from my mostly-Craigslist data set of 4.5 million points.

Pretty cool, but I'm not sure what it means except that there is basically a linear relationship.

Please copy this graph and use it where ever you want, as long as you keep the http://patrick.net URL in the image.

Here's the gnuplot commands I used:

set term gif
set output "price_to_rent.gif"
set size 0.8, 0.8
set label 'From http://patrick.net' at graph 0.01, graph 0.08
set xlabel "Average price in zip code"
set ylabel "Average rent in zip code"
set xrange [0:800000]
set yrange [0:3000]
set title "Average price vs average rent by zip code"
plot "price_to_rent.txt" using 2:3 notitle pt 0

Anyone know how to make the text of the url label lighter, or how to put commas and $ marks on the rents and prices?