Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more

Posted by imgabe on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:27AM
from the show-hn dept.

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by strzibny on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:55PM (#28686757)

Fun project, I got most right (one I failed). What do you want to do with it?

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by jhgb on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#28683022)

~50% success rate -- you could replace me with a very small shell script. :)

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by afkqs on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:15AM (#28683032)

Funny idea! Are you using any 3rd party APIs under the hood?

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by imgabe on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:16AM (#28683041)

Nope, the data was all scraped from public websites.

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by m_lee on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:21AM (#28683092)

Does price have an inverse relationship to taste?

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by sm4rk0 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:31AM (#28683241)

Very good! Are prices inflation-adjusted?

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by imgabe on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:33AM (#28683272)

So far they only go back to 2018 or so. However the randomly selected options will always be with in +/- 1 year, so they should be comparable.

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:34AM (#28683287)

Awesome

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more by ericskiff on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:04AM (#28682921)

Fun!

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