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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.624s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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jfil ◴[25 Aug 24 15:13 UTC] No.41347856[source]▶
Working on:

- Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you interested? Please get in touch!

- Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is done, now working on a writeup.

- ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on making mobile-friendly imagemaps

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Swain123 ◴[25 Aug 24 15:20 UTC] No.41347913[source]▶
That sounds interesting. What are you planning to do knowing the patterns? And isn't the data private?
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jfil ◴[25 Aug 24 16:54 UTC] No.41348881[source]▶
I am making the data available for others to use for academic analysis and/or supporting legal action. The large Canadian grocers are known to price-fix and collude, and it would be interesting to see if there are any patterns in their pricing movements. (My contribution is "getting the raw data")

The data was posted publicly online on the merchants' websites.

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1. nazcan ◴[25 Aug 24 18:32 UTC] No.41349898[source]▶
To confirm, it is just posted in the sense of crawling the web site, right? They don't post structured data I assume.
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2. jfil ◴[25 Aug 24 23:53 UTC] No.41352612[source]▶
Correct!