NZ Car Auctions, Part 3: Predicting Prices With XGBoost
A small side project that evolved from a simple daily crawler into a price prediction tool for New Zealand insurance auctions.
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4 posts since 2016
— 2024
NZ Car Auctions, Part 1: Building a 660,000-Record Dataset
How a small daily crawler pointed at New Zealand's insurance auctions quietly grew into a three-year, 660,000-record public dataset. Scraping, GitHub Actions, cleaning, and the gotchas along the way.
NZ Car Auctions, Part 2: Analytics With Zero Servers
What 1,100 days of NZ salvage auctions reveal, and how FindCars NZ serves interactive charts and a free JSON API from a purely static site.
— 2016
