<commit_before>---
title: Assessed property values
created_at: 2013-05-25
kind: article
---

[Jake](https://twitter.com/jbialer/) found me the Scarsdale Assessor's 
[roll](https://github.com/tlevine/scarsdale-data/blob/master/assessor/2012.pdf?raw=true).
It appears to contain the address, size and assessed values, among other
things, of all 5,954 properties in Scarsdale. I pulled some information out and
had some fun.

I started by collecting the assessed values of the properties. I collected
the full market value, which is equivalent to the assessed value. (It's 
not really the market value.)

## Overview
I wanted to know what the general distribution of assessed values was like,
so I plotted a histogram.

![Histogram from $0 to $2,000,000 with one bin far towards the left](<%= item.identifier %>total-assessed-simple.png)

The data were very positively skewed, so I plotted them on a log scale.

![Histogram on a log scale with several bins, peaking around $100,000](<%= item.identifier %>total-assessed-log.png)

The mound at the far-left is the 210 of 5954 properties that were assessed<commit_msg>tag with scarsdale<commit_after>---
title: Assessed property values
created_at: 2013-05-25
kind: article
tags: ['scarsdale']
---

[Jake](https://twitter.com/jbialer/) found me the Scarsdale Assessor's 
[roll](https://github.com/tlevine/scarsdale-data/blob/master/assessor/2012.pdf?raw=true).
It appears to contain the address, size and assessed values, among other
things, of all 5,954 properties in Scarsdale. I pulled some information out and
had some fun.

I started by collecting the assessed values of the properties. I collected
the full market value, which is equivalent to the assessed value. (It's 
not really the market value.)

## Overview
I wanted to know what the general distribution of assessed values was like,
so I plotted a histogram.

![Histogram from $0 to $2,000,000 with one bin far towards the left](<%= item.identifier %>total-assessed-simple.png)

The data were very positively skewed, so I plotted them on a log scale.

![Histogram on a log scale with several bins, peaking around $100,000](<%= item.identifier %>total-assessed-log.png)

The mound at the far-left is the 210 of 5954 properties that were assessed
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