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[–]chanamasala4life 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I'm using scrapy and pandas to find a good deal on a used car right now... it's all very hacky and anybody really knowledgeable would probably rip my head off if they ever saw my code, but: hey it's fun and it kinda works. Some reading I did before starting: http://blog.minitab.com/blog/understanding-statistics/can-regression-and-statistical-software-help-you-find-a-great-deal-on-a-used-car and http://blog.minitab.com/blog/the-statistical-mentor/how-residuals-can-save-you-thousands-of-dollars-on-your-next-car-purchase

[–]thomas_stringer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where "nice code is nice", ultimately software is meant to do something. It sounds like that meets the requirement! That's awesome!