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hhubraumhugo about 3 hours ago 6 commentsRead Article on kadoa.com

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes daily food price data for about 290 commodities on:

- what growers were paid at shipping point

- what buyers paid at the big city wholesale markets

- what prices supermarkets advertised in their weekly ads

This data comes out as dozens of separate text reports and PDFs, one per market, with no history and no way to see how prices change over time.

I think this should be public data that is easy to access and understand, so I built an open-source tracker for it.

Github: https://github.com/kadoa-org/food-price-monitor

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Discussion (6 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

pkthunder•about 1 hour ago
$0.80 per dz eggs seems wrong??
dvh•about 2 hours ago
Why is x axis unmarked? Is it hours, days, years, bananas?
happytoexplain•about 2 hours ago
It's the past year, but yeah, it should indicate that more proximally to the axis.
OutOfHere•about 2 hours ago
Shouldn't you show a sensible composite index value on top?
still-learning•about 2 hours ago
Would love sorting capabilities
ck2•about 1 hour ago
is government data even trustworthy anymore at any level for any reason?

they've fired everyone and replaced them with a few sycophants

(you think those job numbers are real after he fired head of Bureau of Statistics calling them "rigged" and replaced with someone he liked)

just make a fake walmart account for your local store

add a dozen items to your cart that you use most and take a screenshot or print to pdf

then go back in December and look at the same items

if you already use a walmart account for years, go back and look at a receipt and then add the same items and look at the price