car.prices.df: Car listings from trademe

In jmcurran/jaggR: Supporting Files and Functions for the Book Bayesian Modelling with 'JAGS'

Car listings from trademe

Description

This data set consists of 3,618 listings scraped from the New Zealand website tradee. trademe is similar to ebay in that is an online auction site which allows sellers to list new and used goods for sale. Goods may be purchased via auction, or outright if the seller has enabled that option. Many New Zealanders, including commericial car dealers, use the website to buy and sell cars. The listings gathered consist are mostly for Mazda 3 and Toyota Corolla vehicles, along with imported vehicles which may be the same car, but with different badging.

Usage

car.prices.df

Format

An object of class data.frame with 3618 rows and 13 columns.

Details

@format A data.frame with 3,618 rows and 14 columns:

obs

The observation number, from 1 to 3618.

title

The listing title - basically the make and model of the car.

year

The year of manufacture of the vehicle.

age

The age of the vehicle as of 2013 (when this data was collected). So a car manufactured in 2009 would have an age of 4, for example.

price

The asking price, in NZD.

km

The number of kilometres on the odometer—i.e. the "mileage."

cc

The displacement of the engine in cubic centimetres.

fuel

The fuel used by the vehicle: either Petrol (gasoline) or Diesel.

doors

The number of doors in the car. Note 3 and 5 door cars are hatchbacks.

list.color

The colour of the car given in the listing.

simple.color

An attempt to standardise the colour to a reduced category. For example sky blue, and light blue would both get transformed to blue.

make

The manufacturer of the car: either Mazda or Toyota

jmcurran/jaggR documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 11:04 a.m.