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The Effects of SXSW on Austin Bar Tabs

12 points by thingsilearned 13y ago

jbigelow76 13y ago
A big influx of people results in more sales, no surprise there. I'd be more interested to see how the average tip amount changes and if it's for better or worse.
- thingsilearned 13y ago
  That would be interesting. Unfortunately that's not available in the tax dataset we have. If it were I'd also question the accuracy of it as well as restaurants have a reputation for being less than precise with their earning filings.
pkinsky 13y ago
>Tens of thousands of people are about to transcend on Austin today I think you mean descend :)
- melsmo 13y ago
  you are absolutely right. ha. i'll have to make that edit. wouldn't it be cool if we could transcend though?
  - pasbesoin 13y ago
    Never been, but as I understand it from others' comments, that feature was removed several releases (years) back. ---- P.S. Had a friend who moved to Austin... jeez, quite a few years back, now, for the sake of her budding music career. I gather now that she was, or has certainly since not been, alone in this.
thingsilearned 13y ago
direct link to the dashboard: https://chartio.com/project/16192/dash/sxsw-alcohol-consumption-and-restaurant-inspection-scores%2C21664/public/ https://chartio.com/project/16192/dash/sxsw-alcohol-consumpt...
jdrobins2000 13y ago
Wouldn't it be more correct to say 66% growth? In other words, if sales were flat, I would think saying 0% growth makes more sense than 100% growth.
johnturp 13y ago
I'd like to see how geographically grouped the results would be. Glancing at the data, I see lots of growth immediately around the convention center but it drops off as you get further out of walking distance. Rainey street and (dirty) west 6th win big. I wonder how much it drops when you go further than a 10 minute walk
patja 13y ago
Vexing that all of the links to Enigma.io in the blog post are malformed. I manually navigated to enigma.io because who can resist that name, and was intrigued by what they do. I thought it might fit in with a technology class I teach. Disappointing to see in their terms you must be 18 to use it. What is up with the requirement you be 18? COPPA stops at 13, right? It is frustrating to find overly eager attorneys eliminating the use of interesting products by students. Even Mozilla's Webmaker program requires you to be 18 for goodness sake!

A big influx of people results in more sales, no surprise there. I'd be more interested to see how the average tip amount changes and if it's for better or worse.

thingsilearned 13y ago
That would be interesting. Unfortunately that's not available in the tax dataset we have. If it were I'd also question the accuracy of it as well as restaurants have a reputation for being less than precise with their earning filings.

pkinsky 13y ago

>Tens of thousands of people are about to transcend on Austin today I think you mean descend :)

melsmo 13y ago
you are absolutely right. ha. i'll have to make that edit. wouldn't it be cool if we could transcend though?
- pasbesoin 13y ago
  Never been, but as I understand it from others' comments, that feature was removed several releases (years) back. ---- P.S. Had a friend who moved to Austin... jeez, quite a few years back, now, for the sake of her budding music career. I gather now that she was, or has certainly since not been, alone in this.

thingsilearned 13y ago

direct link to the dashboard: https://chartio.com/project/16192/dash/sxsw-alcohol-consumption-and-restaurant-inspection-scores%2C21664/public/ https://chartio.com/project/16192/dash/sxsw-alcohol-consumpt...

jdrobins2000 13y ago

Wouldn't it be more correct to say 66% growth? In other words, if sales were flat, I would think saying 0% growth makes more sense than 100% growth.

johnturp 13y ago

I'd like to see how geographically grouped the results would be. Glancing at the data, I see lots of growth immediately around the convention center but it drops off as you get further out of walking distance. Rainey street and (dirty) west 6th win big. I wonder how much it drops when you go further than a 10 minute walk

patja 13y ago

Vexing that all of the links to Enigma.io in the blog post are malformed. I manually navigated to enigma.io because who can resist that name, and was intrigued by what they do. I thought it might fit in with a technology class I teach. Disappointing to see in their terms you must be 18 to use it. What is up with the requirement you be 18? COPPA stops at 13, right? It is frustrating to find overly eager attorneys eliminating the use of interesting products by students. Even Mozilla's Webmaker program requires you to be 18 for goodness sake!