HomeSeeker: A visual analytics system of real estate data

Abstract

In this paper, we present HomeSeeker, an interactive visual analytics system to serve users with different backgrounds of the local real estate market and meet different degrees of user requirements. As a result, HomeSeeker augments existing commercial systems to help users discover hidden patterns, link various location-centered data to the price, as well as explore, filter and compare the properties, in order to easily find their preferred properties. In particular, we make the following contributions: (1) We present a problem abstraction for designing visualizations that help home buyers analyse the real estate data. Specifically, our data abstraction integrates heterogeneous data from di..