Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
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Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#2The uniformity of buying recommendations makes this seemingly useless. I looked up 4 very different make and model combinations and every recommendation was "Buy a 2009-2011 for the best value"
But it's neat that greens are cheap.
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#3Is it possible to get a view that shows average price AND the number of samples (maybe if you mouse over a column) at the same time? Or maybe some info about stuff like variance, stdev, median, etc?
Trying to figure out why green cars are cheaper:
It looks like green cars are mostly from 97 to 2003 in a roughly normal curve, while most other colors are exponential (so mostly from the last couple years instead, and dropping off dramatically once you reach 2005 and older). Not counting purple, which has 8 samples and is therefore mostly useless, hah.
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#4The uniformity of buying recommendations makes this seemingly useless. I looked up 4 very different make and model combinations and every recommendation was "Buy a 2009-2011 for the best value" But it's neat that greens are cheap.
oh yeah, this has nothing to do with what you should buy - we just built the tool after a few beers this weekend because it seemed like it would be cool to easily visualize every car for sale in SF... hope its enjoyable!
also - we are building a comprehensive recommendation engine for the top 50-100 models by collecting everything from EPA & NHTSA safety data to style awards and max lifetime mileage. this is probably a month out and has required getting pretty creative about crawling a number of heterogeneous data sources
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#5The uniformity of buying recommendations makes this seemingly useless. I looked up 4 very different make and model combinations and every recommendation was "Buy a 2009-2011 for the best value" But it's neat that greens are cheap.
oh yeah, this has nothing to do with what you should buy - we just built the tool after a few beers this weekend because it seemed like it would be cool to easily visualize every car for sale in SF... hope its enjoyable! also - we are building a comprehensive recommendation engine for the top 50-100 models by collecting everything from EPA & NHTSA safety data to style awards and max lifetime mileage. this is probably…
Awesome, I'm looking at getting a car and a resource like this would help a lot.
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#6Is it possible to get a view that shows average price AND the number of samples (maybe if you mouse over a column) at the same time? Or maybe some info about stuff like variance, stdev, median, etc? Trying to figure out why green cars are cheaper: It looks like green cars are mostly from 97 to 2003 in a roughly normal curve, while most other colors are exponential (so mostly from the last couple years instead, and dr…
Ya, I'll add that to our list of feature requests. Would definitely like to put some more features in, to help people with blog posts or other research in the car space.
Ah yes, I would seem that green cars are going out of fashion, dunno who would want a purple car =P
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#7Interesting. Apparently for Hyundai cars green is the most expensive. :p
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#8How do you get the car data? I see you have data from cars.com do you have custom code that scrapes the data or do you use some known tools?
Thanks
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#9Green cars aren't cheaper, but people that choose the color green also choose cheaper cars on average when compared to people that buy any other color.
Re: Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
#10Green cars aren't cheaper, but people that choose the color green also choose cheaper cars on average when compared to people that buy any other color.
Since the price of a use car is to a large extent determined by what the market will bear, doesn't that amount to the same thing?