Project 4: Graph some data from first principles

Due: Tues Nov  3rd at 11:59pm

Summary:

In this project you will open a window, and draw couple of graphs using shapes and the NiceGUI library.

Details:

For this project,

• First create a new project in pycharm make sure the project name has your name and an indication of which project this is.
• Be sure to install and import the NiceGUI library
• Grab the RentPerSquareFootAug2026.csv file from the online project page.
• Open up the data file and examine it. It is a more real file than the ones we worked on in class
• there are two header lines instead of just one - be careful of that.
• look down through the data - how is data that they don't have represented?
• Notice that some of the metro areas are in more than one state!! use the python in keyword to check if your state is one of them
• Notice that some of the data is incomplete. Your program should check for that (you can't remove the .;.;.; lines from the file)
• Select two states
• one from the New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)
• one of the following from elsewhere in the country: Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Iowa
• These out of New England states are all much larger, so only graph the first 8 cities with real data (again skip over the missing data.)
• Make these Graphs(using just NiceGUI shapes - yes a couple of you have experience with more libraries and topics we haven't covered yet, but deep inside most of these libraries, this is what someone implemented)
• one for each of the two states that you've picked above
• In class I'll hand out a printout of my solution to this project to help you visualize what I mean. I've used different states than I've mentioned above so your graphs will look different.
• Each Graph should
• have a label above it to tell us what we are looking at
• have an X-axis and Y-axis drawn. label the x-axis
• Draw horizontal bars on the graph representing the August 2026 median rent for the metro/city
• each bar should be appropriate size for the median rent.
• Each bar should be labeled with the name of the city/metro in a readable format
• this can be cut off a bit if you have one of the metros with ridiculous rent like Martha's Vinyard, New York, etc.
• each bar should be one color if the rent increased in Aug 2026 compared to Aug 2025
• and a different color is the rent decreased in Aug 2026 compared to Aug 2025

Of course put this into git and onto github sooner rather than later.

Additional  requirements:

• Create a readme file in your project. In the read me include
• Your name
• The two states that you chose to graph.
• Which color represents an increase in rent and which represents a decrease.
• A brief (few sentences) summary of what you learned about rent and where it is going in the two states that you are graphing.
• Anything that you didn't get done
• Your code must be commented, you don't have to comment every line, but you need to explain to me what you are doing in the code. Last time I was quite forgiving, I'll be marking off this time.

Submission:

As with the previous project, to submit the project to me, share it with me on github. My github id is jsantore. You can see directions for doing this here.