William M. Hartnett

The fourth and final installment of the Mapping the Boom series. Without a doubt, the best of the bunch. The hot spot map on the cover of the 56-page special section was created in the spatial statistics program CrimeStat, and took nearly nine hours to process on my old PC. (I later repeated the procedure [...]

The third installment of the Mapping the Boom series, updated through the third quarter of 2005. The focus of this 32-page section was on pre-retirees and splitters, Baby Boomers who are buying now in preparation for retirement. The dwindling supply of affordable homes also was covered.
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The second installment of the Mapping the Boom series, with updated data through the first half of 2005. This 48-page section focused on some of the side-effects of the housing boom, including investor activity, high turnover and part-time residents. I made interactive maps showing sales activity rates and full-time residency status, but they’re not online [...]

I built custom base maps and analyzed nearly 500,000 home sales to produce this report. The results were published in a 48-page (with ads) special section. I also made a series of interactive maps for the web, but they aren’t online anymore.
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