Should you move to San Jose predictor app

This application is a fun application to compare one's satisfaction of living in their city versus San Jose citizens' satisfaction of living in San Jose.

A user only has to:

• disclose the name of their city (eg. Austin)
• rate their city based on 5 criterias

Then the app will predict whether the user would be happier continuing to live in their city or move to San Jose.

We make the following assumptions in our calculations:

• An individual weights the 5 criterias about a city equally.
• An individual's possible satisfaction for San Jose is the same as the average San Jose citizens' satisfaction.

This is what a subset of the results from the 2014 survey looks like:

Each record shows the distribution of answers for each question. For example, the first record shows that 19% of the San Jose residents who took the survey said that as a place to live, San Jose is excellent.

We arbitarily assigned a number score to each categorical answer: “Excellent” is equivalent to score of 4, “Good” is 3, “Fair” is 2, and Poor is 1

A score for each question is calculated by weights. For instance, San Jose as a place to live gets a score of 2.79, which is calculated like this 0.19(4) + 0.48(3) + 0.26(2) + 0.07(1)

The scores from each question is then weighted equally to obtain the final San Jose satisfaction score of: 2.578

So based on your answers on the app, your city's score is then calculated. Then it gets compared against 2.578.

The San Jose 2014 survey results are available here: http://data.sanjoseca.gov/datastreams/89222/national-citizens-survey-results-2014/