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Series · 3 posts · Dec 2024

NZCarAuctions

A daily crawler on New Zealand's insurance auctions that grew into a 660,000-record public dataset.

Start at part 1 → ≈ 19 min total read
  1. 01NZ Car Auctions, Part 1: Building a 660,000-Record DatasetHow a small daily crawler pointed at New Zealand's insurance auctions grew into a three-year, 660,000-record public dataset.15 December 2024 · 6 mins read
  2. 02NZ Car Auctions, Part 2: Analytics With Zero ServersWhat 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.16 December 2024 · 6 mins read
  3. 03NZ Car Auctions, Part 3: Predicting Prices With XGBoostA small side project that evolved from a simple daily crawler into a price prediction tool for New Zealand insurance auctions.17 December 2024 · 7 mins read

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