• Separate into three tables (Location, Characteristics, and Selling).

Location

Cleaning

  • Remove duplicated row
  • Check 5 address listed as Mclean in the Arlington County Property Search to confirm they are in Arlington's Jurisdiction

Restructuring

  • Set into wide format with on observation per an address

Housing

Cleaning

  • Remove duplicated row
  • Pull out variables of interest
  • Check house that had 30 bedrooms against Arlington County Property Search and fix 
  • Check house that had 21 full bathrooms against Arlington County Property Search and fix

Transformation

  • Recode type of property into Property Type and Number of Units ACS categories
  • Recode Bedroom Count to ACS categories
  • Recode Bathrooms to ACS category
  • Recode Year Built into ACS categories
  • Recode Heating Fuel into ACS categories
    • Had to create Unknown category for those that were not specific on fuel type currently in use (some levels were about availability)

Selling

Cleaning

  • Remove duplicated row
  • Pull out variables of interest

Transformation

  • Make selling data into Selling.Year
  • Put Closing Price and Original Listing Price  into constant 2013 dollars