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This example of counting cars has been around the geo industry forever, and satellite imagery is pretty cost prohibitive to get on a regular basis. I'd be surpr
by lil-scamp 7y ago
This example of counting cars has been around the geo industry forever, and satellite imagery is pretty cost prohibitive to get on a regular basis. I'd be surprised if hedge funds haven't already moved on to purchasing location-based data (ie mobile phone data) to get even more accurate counts of people in box stores.
- 50656E6973 7y agoThat seems to be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
- lil-scamp 7y agoWonder what the pricing in on that location data is for financial sector customers, and if it's cheaper than a regular purchase of satellite data. It'd be interesting to compare the mobile location data to the satellite data and find the deltas— that would make it a lot easier to build efficient models w/ existing satellite if it's cheaper.