Data from: Quantifying the link between art and property prices in urban neighbourhoods

Is there an association between art and changes in the economic conditions of urban neighbourhoods? While the popular media and policymakers commonly believe this to be the case, quantitative evidence remains lacking. Here, we use metadata of geotagged photographs uploaded to the popular image-sharing platform Flickr to quantify the presence of art in London neighbourhoods. We estimate the presence of art in neighbourhoods by determining the proportion of Flickr photographs which have the word ‘art’ attached. We compare this with the relative gain in residential property prices for each Inner London neighbourhood. We find that neighbourhoods which have a higher proportion of ‘art’ photographs also have greater relative gains in property prices. Our findings demonstrate how online data can be used to quantify aspects of the visual environment at scale and reveal new connections between the visual environment and crucial socio-economic measurements.艺术与城市社区的经济状况变化之间是否存在关联？尽管大众媒体与政策制定者普遍认为二者存在关联，但相关定量证据仍付阙如。为此，我们采用上传至热门图片分享平台Flickr的地理标记照片元数据，对伦敦各社区的艺术存在状况展开量化分析。我们通过统计带有"art"标签的Flickr照片占比，估算各社区的艺术存在程度，并将该指标与伦敦内城区各社区的住宅房价相对涨幅进行对比。研究发现，带有"art"标签的照片占比更高的社区，其住宅房价相对涨幅也更为显著。本研究证实，在线数据可用于大规模量化视觉环境的多维度特征，并揭示了视觉环境与关键社会经济指标之间的全新关联。