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Billion Prices Project India

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bpp-india

Product Prices analysis for various online retail stores ( Amazon,Flipkart,Snapdeal,HomeShop18 etc.)

Billion Prices Project is an initiative by two MIT profs to compute inflation statistics from online prices of goods instead of physical sampling as done by BLS. We are replicating the same for India.

Using the same category of products that RBI uses, we mine various online stores for prices of goods on a daily basis. We generate category indices for each category of products using appropriate weighting and then create a final inflation index.

Comparing All Store Analysis - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/compareall/part-00000

Comparing Flipkart & Amazon - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/compareamazonflipkart/part-00000

Comparing Snapdeal and FlipKart - https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/comparelipkartsnapdeal/part-00000

Stores Sorted from Min to Max Price for a Product -

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/vendorpricesorted/part-00000 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/vendorpricesorted/part-00001 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/vendorpricesorted/part-00002 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/vendorpricesorted/part-00003

Store at which item is available at minimum price -

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/minprice/part-00000 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/minprice/part-00001 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/minprice/part-00002 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/midsprojectoutput/minprice/part-00003

Essential Commodity Retail Price Analysis for various Items across different cities

The data is provided by Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution We also analysed the commodity prices across various items ( rice/sugar/gasoline etc.) and the variation in prices across Tier 1 cities in India. The results are below

https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/bpp_wpi_0/PriceAnalysis?:embed=y&:display_count=no

Analysis using R

CPI Inflation
106.8312 "
137.511053 28.718065
133.878712 -2.641491
442.792329 230.741403
514.803536 16.262975
797.175041 54.850343
412.962419 -48.19677
823.945396 99.520673
455.254099 -44.747055
792.8606 74.157807
804.37898 1.452768
447.536169 -44.362523
477.174856 6.622635
1025.633529 114.938721
647.224839 -36.895117
749.369954 15.782014
832.454373 11.087236
463.089626 -44.37057
307.903021 -33.511138
977.612001 217.506466
699.300975 -28.468454
543.599912 -22.265243
1.839218 -99.66166