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Score #7

Closed jmp1994 closed 8 years ago

jmp1994 commented 8 years ago

I'm a college student working on my senior thesis and I'm attempting to analyze the secondary ticket market for festivals in my research. I came across the SeatGeek API and saw the "Score" variable which I'm hoping to implement into my project but have a question about it.

  1. Can you tell me how the estimated sales volume is calculated to create Score?

Or if not, at least tell if it is partially based on historical sales for an event/artist or is it only reflecting expected future sales based on current demand?

So for example, an artists' score would be very high while they're on tour, but then drop down again once they aren't playing any shows.

Thank you for your help, Julian Perez

steverit commented 8 years ago

Hi Julian,

The variable is based off of historic data, it makes no effort to guess future sales.

So for example, an artists' score would be very high while they're on tour, but then drop down again once they aren't playing any shows.

The score would not drop. The highest score events have the highest scores all year long.

jmp1994 commented 8 years ago

Hi Steve,

Thank you so much for this, I really appreciate it.

Have a great weekend, Julian

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Steve Ritter notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Julian,

The variable is based off of historic data, it makes no effort to guess future sales.

So for example, an artists' score would be very high while they're on tour, but then drop down again once they aren't playing any shows.

The score would not drop. The highest score events have the highest scores all year long.

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