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		erikig on Oct 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellect... Thanks for sharing this, I really like the site a lot. I was impressed by the variety of search criteria. How do you reliably gather such disparate pieces of information?

pieterhg on Oct 16, 2018 [–]

It’s incredibly challenging. Imagine trying to collect 250-500 data points for 1000-2000 cities. And doing it consistently.

I use data sets to seed with and then crowdsourced edits by site users to add to the data.

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