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Type of site | User generated database |
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URL | http://www.priceofweed.com/ |
Commercial | No |
Registration | None |
Launched | 2010 |
Current status | Online |
Price of Weed (or priceofweed.com) is a user-generated database of marijuana prices. Users may submit prices and quantities for transactions, and their location is geolocated in order to generate a price index for states and cities. While user-generated prices have no inherent check on accuracy, the criminal status of marijuana in many countries means a formal price index may be difficult to construct. [1] [2]
In August 2011, Matthew Zook, a professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, generated a detailed heatmap using data from the site. [3] The map was included in an issue of Wired [4] and drew attention to Price of Weed from Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture and Flowing Data. [5] [6] In 2014, Allen B. Downey, a professor from Olin College, utilized data from Price of Weed in his book Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (Second Edition). [7] In May 2015, Frank Bi of Forbes published a piece title All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed. [8] In June 2015, The Washington Post generated a detailed infographic portraying pricing data from 8 major US cities. This marks the first data shared publicly portraying a time series of data by city from Price of Weed. [9] In August 2015, Mingshu Wang from The Department of Geography at University of Georgia generated a detailed graphic portraying the crowdsourced data from The Price of Weed. [10] In October 2016, David Floyd of Investopedia published an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State? [11]
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