Datamining a Flat in Munich

Re:Datamining a Flat in Munich by stef25 on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:30AM (#8361290)

Do you scrape those sites, or use their rss feeds or ... ? I think it's a great concept, just wonder about the legality of it.

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Re:Datamining a Flat in Munich by freyfogle on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:42AM (#8361342)

We have contracts with and datafeeds from all of them. We've been in business since 2006, in Germany since 2008.

We work very closely with our partners to try to improve the data. It's not always easy. I gave a talk about this at csv,conf in Berlin in July, slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/lokku/a-living-hell-lessons-learne...

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Re:Datamining a Flat in Munich by dusandusan on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:42PM (#8363296)

Great slides, thanks a lot for the link.

"Unless you hate life, do NOT try to scrape real estate data"

With this conclusion, do you mean web scraping or just processing the datafeeds of your partners?

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Re:Datamining a Flat in Munich by GFischer on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @09:59AM (#8361433)

Haha, I went through a smaller-scale version of those problems, and your presentation is spot-on :) , I can totally relate.

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