Mining + scraping · Decatur, GA
Mining and scraping for Decatur small businesses
Around the Decatur Square, owners sell at the Wednesday market, in shops, at book and craft festivals and online. We bring those records together in one table and add public prices from comparable sellers when a question calls for them.
Mining Decatur market and festival sales together
The farmers market meets Wednesday afternoons on a church lawn, and the town hosts a book festival, an arts festival, a craft beer festival and a maker's faire. A seller might work all of them.
We combine the register exports, payment app records and online orders, tagging each row with its event. You can compare one festival against another.
Festival days produce more rows than a normal Wednesday, and they come from more apps. Putting them in one table keeps your festival season from drowning your everyday numbers, or the reverse.
Scraping fair prices for a small, well-known downtown
With about twenty-five thousand residents, Decatur has a compact set of competitors, and customers know them. A short script collects listed prices, ratings and review counts from the public pages of those shops.
We do public pages only, within each site's terms.
A compact downtown has one advantage: a short list of competitors can be checked thoroughly. We record each one's price, rating and review count and the date, and you can repeat the check at any interval you choose.
Campus-adjacent services
Agnes Scott College, a Perimeter College campus and a seminary sit in town. Tutors, caterers and print shops near them may see demand follow the term.
A dated table shows semester patterns.
If a seminary or college event brings a bump in bookings for a caterer or an inn, a dated table shows how large that bump was.
What mining prepares for later
Cleaning merges duplicates and fixes spellings, then analysis answers questions on your numbers.
Each stage reads the last one's table.
Nothing in this stage changes how you work. You keep your apps, your register and your market routine, and we hand back a table you can open on any computer.
Cleaning follows, then analysis and charts, and each stage reads the table the last one left.
Questions from Decatur owners
Can you work from a market-day cash notebook?
If it is legible, yes. We type or photograph the pages into a sheet, then tag the rows as cash. Cash rows stay in their own column, so totals match what you banked.
Do I need a website for this?
No. Your own records, wherever they live, are enough to begin.
Will you tell me when a competitor changes prices?
We collect on a schedule we agree on, and each row carries its date, so changes appear in the table.
Sources for the facts on this page: Decatur Farmers Market, Community Farmers Markets · Decatur, Georgia, Wikipedia
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