Re:I Beat the Berlin Rental Market with a Python Script
by jmlopes on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:42AM
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Your application will be perfect if you manage to calculate the bias effect of the name. In other words if your name is Peter, Giovanni or Ahmed it does play a role if you get to rent the place or not. My name is José by the way.
Re:I Beat the Berlin Rental Market with a Python Script
by giansegato on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:30AM
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lol, that's absolutely nuts
I've heard from people that many landlords randomize viewings from the first batch of applicants - I'm actually thinking of working on a weighting system to make the whole thing a bit more meritocratic, because right now it's frustrating at best, racist at worst
Thanks for the compliment on my English skills. I'm an Italian immigrant, actually. I've been focusing a lot on my writing, and I'm part of a community of writers that help me out with that.
> it read rather like a quirky advertisement
I assure it wasn't. I mean, it was, but for something different from what you expect: I'm trying to build an audience online, and this blog post is the funnel opening to my Twitter account. [1]
That being said, I'm indeed trying to build a product out of those experiments, and maybe I will get some side money from it. It'd be awesome, but that's not my core, first goal
Happy to answer more questions if you have any!
[1] https://twitter.com/giansegato