Independent Projects

Sam Ngan

Master of Applied Data Science, 2026 · University of Canterbury

Christchurch Rental Intelligence

An end-to-end rental market intelligence platform for Christchurch, NZ — from raw government data to interactive web application. Combines 30+ years of government tenancy bond data (MBIE) with ARIMA time series forecasting to estimate current suburb-level rents and project where they are heading — what is the market rent for this suburb, and where is it going?

±3–7%
Forecast accuracy
90 suburbs
Christchurch
397 months
MBIE History
Interactive
Suburb charts
AI Assistant
Rental Q&A
Python React ARIMA GeoJSON GitHub Actions Gemini LLM MBIE API