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#+options: ':nil *:t -:t ::t <:t H:3 \n:nil ^:t arch:headline author:t |
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#+options: broken-links:nil c:nil creator:nil d:(not "LOGBOOK") date:t e:t |
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#+options: email:nil expand-links:t f:t inline:t num:t p:nil pri:nil prop:nil |
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#+options: stat:t tags:t tasks:t tex:t timestamp:t title:t toc:t todo:t |:t |
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#+title: Prime Location Manchester |
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#+date: \today |
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#+author: Craig Oates |
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#+email: craig@craigoates.net |
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#+language: en |
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#+select_tags: export |
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#+exclude_tags: noexport |
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#+creator: Emacs 29.1.90 (Org mode 9.7-pre) |
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#+cite_export: |
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* Setup Common Lisp Environment |
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I’ve copied the following code block over from other files. Run it if this is |
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your first file open in the session. |
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#+begin_src lisp :session :results silent |
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(ql:quickload :com.inuoe.jzon) ; JSON parser. |
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(ql:quickload :dexador) ; HTTP requests. |
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(ql:quickload :plump) ; HTML/XML parser. |
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(ql:quickload :lquery) ; HTML/DOM manipulation. |
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(ql:quickload :lparallel) ; Parallel programming. |
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(ql:quickload :cl-ppcre) ; RegEx. library. |
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(ql:quickload :plot/vega) ; Vega plotting library. |
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(ql:quickload :lisp-stat) ; Stat's library. |
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(ql:quickload :data-frame) ; Data frame library eqv. to Python's Numpy. |
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(ql:quickload :str) ; String library, expands on 'string' library. |
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#+end_src |
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* Gather Prime Location Data |
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Having had a quick look at the website, it says there is 208 listings, spread |
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across 11 pages. The search used the following filters: |
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- Date: 2024-03-18 |
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- Location: Manchester City Centre, Greater Manchester |
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- Rent Listing Only |
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- Only monthly rents listed |
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- Price Range: £400–£1,250 pcm |
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- Include Shared Accommodation |
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- Radius: ’This area only’ |
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Because of the amount of listings, I'm going to need to use ~curl~ and grab each |
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page separately. |
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*There are not options to filter out ’student-only’ and ’bills inc.’ so this is |
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going to be less accurate compared to other sites.* |
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#+begin_src shell :results silent |
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cd raw-data/external/ |
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DIRECTORY="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')-prime-location-manc" |
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mkdir $DIRECTORY |
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for PAGE in {0..11} |
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do |
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curl -o "$DIRECTORY/prime-location-$PAGE.html" \ |
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"https://www.primelocation.com/to-rent/property/manchester-city-centre/?price_max=1250&identifier=manchester-city-centre&price_min=400&q=Manchester%20City%20Centre%2C%20Greater%20Manchester&results_sort=lowest_price&search_source=to-rent&radius=0&price_frequency=per_month&view_type=grid&pn=$PAGE" |
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sleep 5 |
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done |
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# Change back to project's root directory, don’t want to call code whilst still |
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# in this directory. It'll probably cause errors. |
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cd ../../ |
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#+end_src |
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* Clean Up and Parse Data |
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The usual separate each listing into its own file. |
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#+begin_src shell :results silent |
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mkdir raw-data/external/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc-listings/ |
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#+end_src |
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[[file:./raw-data/external/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc-listings/]] |
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#+begin_src lisp :results silent |
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(let ((counter 0)) |
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(loop for file-path |
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in (directory #P"raw-data/external/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc/*.html") |
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do (with-open-file (in-stream file-path) |
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(let* ((doc (plump:parse in-stream)) |
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(listings (lquery:$ doc ".srp.grid-cell.grid-cell--left.grid-cell--big" (serialize)))) |
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(loop for item across listings |
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do (let ((out-path |
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(merge-pathnames "raw-data/external/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc-listings/" |
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(format nil "listing-~a.html" (write-to-string counter))))) |
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(with-open-file (out-stream |
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out-path |
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:direction :output |
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:if-exists :supersede) |
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(format out-stream "~a" item)) |
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(incf counter))))))) |
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#+end_src |
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* Create CSV of Listings |
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Build the CSV file from the listings files, as is the established way. |
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#+begin_src lisp :results silent |
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(with-open-file (out-stream |
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#P"working-data/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc.csv" |
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:direction :output |
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:if-exists :supersede) |
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(let ((row-id 0)) |
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(format out-stream "ROW-ID,LOCATION,RENT,URL,DESCRIPTION~%") |
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(loop for filepath |
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in (directory #P"raw-data/external/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc-listings/*.html") |
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do (with-open-file (in-stream filepath) |
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(let* ((doc (plump:parse in-stream)) |
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(raw-price (lquery:$ doc ".price" (text))) |
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(cleaned-price |
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(first |
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(cl-ppcre:all-matches-as-strings |
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"[0-9,]+" (aref raw-price 0)))) |
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(link (lquery:$ doc "a" (attr :href))) |
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(address (lquery:$ doc "p a" (text))) |
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(description (lquery:$ doc "p" (text))) |
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(clean-desc |
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(string-trim " " |
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(cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings |
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".*\\.\.\." (aref description 4))))) |
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(format out-stream "~d,~a,~d,~a,~a~%" |
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row-id |
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(str:replace-all "," " " (aref address 0)) |
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(str:replace-all "," "" cleaned-price) |
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(format nil "https://www.primelocation.com~a" (aref link 0)) |
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(str:replace-all "," " " clean-desc)))) |
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(incf row-id)))) |
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#+end_src |
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*There are some results which state ’only for students’*. So, I will need to |
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filter them out. |
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* Explore CSV Data for Prime Location Manchester (2024-03-18) |
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#+begin_src lisp :session |
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(lisp-stat:defdf *pl-manc* |
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(lisp-stat:read-csv #P"working-data/2024-03-18-prime-location-manc.csv")) |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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: #<DATA-FRAME:DATA-FRAME (114 observations of 5 variables)> |
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*The original look at the data on the website states it was showing 208 |
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listings. This count includes ad's (i.e. promoted) listings.* These listing |
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have not been included in the processing of the data. Thus, ~*pl-manc*~ stating |
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is has ~114 observations~ and not 208. |
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This list is going to reduced further, as the ’only for students’ listings need |
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to be filtered out. |
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#+begin_src lisp :session |
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(lisp-stat:defdf *pl-manc-filt* |
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(lisp-stat:filter-rows *pl-manc* |
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'(not (str:contains? |
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"only for student" |
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description |
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:ignore-case t)))) |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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: #<DATA-FRAME:DATA-FRAME (109 observations of 5 variables)> |
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So, only 109 listings after filtering, from 114. A reduction of 5 listings. The |
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list is still too big to print out in this file, though. |
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#+begin_src lisp :session :results file |
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(vega:defplot pl-mon-manc |
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`(:title "Rent Rates for Manchester on Prime Location (18/03/2024)" |
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:width 1800 |
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:height 600 |
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:data ,*pl-manc-filt* |
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:layer #((:mark (:type :bar) |
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:encoding (:x (:field :row-id :title "Assigned Id." :type :nominal); :axis ("labelAngle" 0)) |
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:y (:field :rent :title "Monthly Rent (£)" :type :quantitative) |
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:tooltip (:field :rent))) |
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(:mark (:type rule :color "darkorange" :size 3) |
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:encoding (:y (:field :rent :type :quantitative :aggregate :average) |
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:tooltip (:field :rent :type :quantitative :aggregate :average)))))) |
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(vega:write-html pl-mon-manc "renders/2024-03-18-prime-location-rent-manc.html") |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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[[file:renders/2024-03-18-prime-location-rent-manc.html]] |
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#+begin_src shell :results silent |
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mv ~/Downloads/visualization.png ./renders/2024-03-18-prime-location-rent-manc.png |
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#+end_src |
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[[file:./renders/2024-03-18-prime-location-rent-manc.png]] |
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#+begin_src lisp :session :results output code raw |
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(format t "- Mean Rent: £ ~a~%" (float (lisp-stat:mean *pl-manc-filt*:rent))) |
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(format t "- Min. Rent: £ ~d~%" (reduce #'min *pl-manc-filt*:rent)) |
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(format t "- Max. Rent: £ ~d" (reduce #'max *pl-manc-filt*:rent)) |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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- Mean Rent: £ 1040.8807 |
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- Min. Rent: £ 550 |
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- Max. Rent: £ 1250 |
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#+begin_src calc :results output |
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1040 * 12 |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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: 12480 |
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* Summary of Prime Location |
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Based on the average rent for Prime Location, I would need to make around |
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£13,000/yr to cover my living costs – not including the usual food, travel |
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etc. expenses. |
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While I managed to apply filters to weed out the student-only listings, *I wasn't |
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able to filter out the listing which don't bills in the rent advertised.* Because |
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of this, these figure less accurate/consistent compared to some of the other |
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sites I've looked at up to now. With that said, there is a good amount of |
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listings here, compared to some of the other sites. So, hopefully, that can help |
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offset some of the ’bills not included’ stuff. |
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Now, the usual ’survival mode’ stuff (add £5,000) onto the annual rent to pay. |
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#+begin_src calc :results output |
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12480 + 5000 |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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: 17480 |
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Using £17,480 as the starting point (see [[file:./uk-wage-tax.org][UK Wage and Tax Rated]], |
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#+begin_src lisp :results output raw |
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(let* ((earning-target 17480) |
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(p-allow 12570) |
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(taxable-income (- earning-target p-allow)) |
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(tax-to-pay (* taxable-income 0.2)) |
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(total (- earning-target tax-to-pay))) |
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(format t "- Annual Target Salary: £~a~%" earning-target) |
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(format t "- Part of Salary which is Taxable: £~a~%" taxable-income) |
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(format t "- Tax to Pay: £~a~%" tax-to-pay) |
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(format t "- Salary After Tax: £~a~%" total)) |
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#+end_src |
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#+RESULTS: |
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- Annual Target Salary: £17480 |
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- Part of Salary which is Taxable: £4910 |
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- Tax to Pay: £982.0 |
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- Salary After Tax: £16498.0 |
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| Time Span | Value After Tax (£) | Mean Rent (£) | |
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|-----------------------+---------------------+---------------| |
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| Annually | 16498.0 | 1040.88 | |
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| Monthly (Before Rent) | 1374.8333 | | |
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| Monthly (After Rent) | 333.9533 | | |
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| Weekly (After Rent) | 83.488325 | | |
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| Daily (After Rent) | 11.926904 | | |
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#+TBLFM: @3$2=@-1/12::@4$2=@-1-@-2$+1::@5$2=@-1/4::@6$2=@-1/7 |
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Daily spend then is £11.93/day. |
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