Posted - 2006.12.28 19:13:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Dr Slurm on 19/04/2007 01:15:26
UPDATE: All data collected may be purchased for 200m. These profits will be equally distributed to all individuals who contributed. Contact me ingame with questions or purchase requests.

The Market Data that I speak of is not the data that comes from the market logs. It comes from the table in "Price History" tab in the market window. By default this displays a graph, there's a button at the bottom that says show table.

This table gives you the data of what actually happened on a specific day. This is much more useful then the market logs that EVE generates. The market logs only present the orders that people have created. Although this does tell you a lot, just not all the history of the market.

Why I bring this up:
I've made a couple of nice graphs that present the history of the market. These graphs are similar to those in game. The advantage of collecting this data is it can be combined with the market logs for interesting results. It can also be analyzed in other ways. These graphs require a good sampling of data. So far I've hand entered this data into a spreadsheet and converted it into a mysql table. This was very slow and tedious. So I found a software package that allows you to reliably pull data with only minor corrections needed.

What I need from other people:
Screen shots of the above described table in consecutive order for at least 1 year time span for each mineral in each region.

Screenshot Requirements:
Size: 1024x768
Font: Choose "Expanded" Font in the settings menu.
Quality: Choose "High Quality Screenshots" in the settings menu.
UPDATE: Background: Change the transparency of the background to solid black.
Dates must not overlap.
Window Position: The market window should be positioned and sized as similar to this placement as possible.
Images should be placed in a folder similar to their nature i.e. JITA-TRIT.
All folders containing images should be archived (zip, rar, gz I don't care)
Email all files to drslurm@gmail.com

How you can help:
Sign up for a whole region or just one mineral in a region or anywhere in between. Take the required screen shots and transfer them to me (described below).

What I will do:
I will run the screen shots through this OCR software and weed out the bad data. And then compile it into a number of formats. (.CSV, EXCEL, MYSQL, or anything else reasonable)

What you get for helping:
Everyone who helps gets a copy in their choice of formats of all data collected and access to daily updates. The public who did not contribute will pay for the data at rates yet to be determined.

I'm interested in all regions and all minerals for regions. So far from my testing it takes about 5 minutes to take screen shots of an entire year for one mineral.
NOTE: Low sec regions aren't as important as Empire for this task but I would like the data if it's available.

Sign up has commenced please post here if you would like to be responsible for a region or whatever. There's not really a deadline for screen shots, but I don't think the data will be useable without the majority of Empire being recorded. It will probably take me another month to put it all together, conservatively.