Mario Zechner (@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place)
mastodon.gamedev.place
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

It would be nice to be able to bring to light the price gouging that is taking place in Canada with regards to grocery stores.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The project is Open source, so you might be able to leverage it for Canadian data. All you need is:

    • Understanding of the expected format for the project
    • Access to data from Canadian retailers. This can be acquired via APIs (these are usually free) or by scraping their sites.