The Data Stack Show

20: Transforming the Real Estate Market with Predictive Analytics with Arian Osman from Homesnap

Episode Notes

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Arian Osman, a senior data scientist at Homesnap who is also nearing the end of his PhD in computational sciences and informatics and is the developer of an e-commerce clothing brand. Homesnap is designed for both homebuyers and agents to access data from the MLS (Multiple Listing Service), providing real-time, accurate information to all parties involved.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Arian’s background and an overview of Homesnap (2:30)
• Utilizing data in Arian’s e-commerce clothing brand (7:14)
• Homesnap’s sell speed feature and visualizing outputs (13:28)
• The psychology that drives upper and lower limits (19:33)
• Deciding the life-cycle of a model (25:50)
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders (30:47)
• Unique challenges of data in the real estate domain (38:16)
• Useful third-party tools (43:33)

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