I have been researching the used car market for the last year in an academic lab. I would love to share stories about data collection and management if Carlypso folks are interested. Not looking to be a consultant or being consulted or any kind of a "gig". As I'm sure they know, used car data is a crazy world of imperfect data points, especially as the car becomes older (>6 years old I'd say data quality begins to break down fast). What proportions of your data are scraped, purchased, or maybe even obtained from a free API like Edmunds.com? I doubt you're using Edmunds as I didn't catch any affiliation info on the site.
I laughed at the "oh yeah that makes sense" story of the big truck being priced higher in TX. My goto story is always the price of convertibles in the winter in MN vs. TX, or the price of an AWD sedan in the winter in MN vs. TX.
Speaking of AWD sedans, I know it's a rare car so this is nitpicky but your 2008 Saab 9-3 data classifies a Turbo X as an Aero. Also the Turbo X trim isn't listed for the wagon. At any rate, your estimate for the Sedan Turbo X is about 20% too low. Granted they only made 600 for the US market, I was still bummed that a car which is so dear to me had this issue. Haha, I'm not trying to be that guy whatsoever! In fact I was happy when I saw Saab was even listed as a Make as many don't even acknowledge them anymore! :(
Anyways let me know if you guys are up for a friendly talk.
I laughed at the "oh yeah that makes sense" story of the big truck being priced higher in TX. My goto story is always the price of convertibles in the winter in MN vs. TX, or the price of an AWD sedan in the winter in MN vs. TX.
Speaking of AWD sedans, I know it's a rare car so this is nitpicky but your 2008 Saab 9-3 data classifies a Turbo X as an Aero. Also the Turbo X trim isn't listed for the wagon. At any rate, your estimate for the Sedan Turbo X is about 20% too low. Granted they only made 600 for the US market, I was still bummed that a car which is so dear to me had this issue. Haha, I'm not trying to be that guy whatsoever! In fact I was happy when I saw Saab was even listed as a Make as many don't even acknowledge them anymore! :(
Anyways let me know if you guys are up for a friendly talk.