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August 18, 2014August 21, 2014

Inflation Class Updated.

This is a class I haven’t talked about here, and for good reason, it was way to simplistic. Initially all this class did was scrape use the bls.gov inflation calculator and return the results. This however is slow, sometimes very slow, and I grew tired of waiting for it. With this update it now does the calculations locally for speedy adjustments. It also can do to-the-month adjustments now, something the bls.gov calculator does not support (even though they have all the data needed).

I know it’s a oddly specific thing to need, but if you need it check out the github repoitory.

June 27, 2014July 31, 2014

Steam Costs script updated!

Updated the Steam-Costs script on github, now it displays the info in neat tables like this:

Regular Price: $74,776.79
Current Price: $45,304.91
Number of Free Items: 306 (%0.047)
Current Number of Discounted Items: 4,874 (%0.752)
Current Savings: %0.394 ($29,471.88)

Average Price: $12.10 ($11.53 including free items)
Average Current Price: $7.33 ($6.99 including free items)
Average Sale Discount: %48.278 ($6.05)

                                 Totals By Category
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Category             | Items | Disc Items | Free Items | Reg Total  | Cur Total  |
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Games                | 3,331 | 2,543      | 222        | $39,862.31 | $22,252.22 |
| Downloadable Content | 3,076 | 2,284      | 73         | $30,526.22 | $19,771.62 |
| Software             | 77    | 47         | 11         | $4,388.26  | $3,281.07  |
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

                                    Discounts By Category
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| Category             | Disc Items | Avg Disc % | Avg Disc $ | Total % Disc | Total Disc $ |
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| Games                | 2,543      | %44.644    | $6.92      | %0.442       | $17,610.09   |
| Downloadable Content | 2,284      | %52.192    | $4.71      | %0.352       | $10,754.60   |
| Software             | 47         | %54.675    | $23.56     | %0.252       | $1,107.19    |
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

Regular Price: $74,776.79

Current Price: $45,304.91

Number of Free Items: 306 (%0.047)

Current Number of Discounted Items: 4,874 (%0.752)

Current Savings: %0.394 ($29,471.88)

Average Price: $12.10 ($11.53 including free items)

Average Current Price: $7.33 ($6.99 including free items)

Average Sale Discount: %48.278 ($6.05)

Totals By Category

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

| Games | 3,331 | 2,543 | 222 | $39,862.31 | $22,252.22 |

| Downloadable Content | 3,076 | 2,284 | 73 | $30,526.22 | $19,771.62 |

| Software | 77 | 47 | 11 | $4,388.26 | $3,281.07 |

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

Discounts By Category

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

| Games | 2,543 | %44.644 | $6.92 | %0.442 | $17,610.09 |

| Downloadable Content | 2,284 | %52.192 | $4.71 | %0.352 | $10,754.60 |

| Software | 47 | %54.675 | $23.56 | %0.252 | $1,107.19 |

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

Theres more data than that to see as well, thats just an excerpt. Additionally, it now lists all the items currently on discount, during a big sale like the ongoing summer sale, thats a really big list. Check out off the details of a scrape I made on the 25th on the steam-costs github page or grab a copy and run it yourself.

June 18, 2014July 31, 2014

Every wonder how much you would need to buy everything off the Steam Store?

Someone did, and they asked the subreddit /r/theydidthemath. I had never considered it before, but I have some experience scraping and playing with data so I decided to make a script that could tell me just that.

Steam Pricing Breakdown June 18th, 2014 4:17pm PDT

Items Accounted For: 6,460
Total Price: $74,018.58
Current Price: $72,318.2
Current Number of Items on Sale: 133
Current Savings: %0.02297 ($1,700.30)

Average Price: $11.46
Average Current Price: $11.19
Average Sale Discount: %56.526 ($12.78)

Regular Price Breakdown by Category
Downloadable Content: $29,666.96
Games               : $39,964.35
Software            : $4,387.27

Regular Price Breakdown by Platform
Linux    : $8,434.45
Mac      : $17,946.96
Steamplay: $18,317.58
Win      : $73,938.61

Regular Price Breakdown by Genre
                     : $10,396.52
Action               : $25,915.81
Adventure            : $12,605.45
Audio Production     : $909.74
Casual               : $7,095.32
Early Access         : $3,830.03
Free To Play         : $6,654.06
Indie                : $17,190.95
Massively Multiplayer: $4,164.14
No Genre Given       : $2,465.27
RPG                  : $11,480.58
Racing               : $2,218.66
Simulation           : $14,648.90
Sports               : $1,989.35
Strategy             : $14,150.05
Utilities            : $629.78

Steam Pricing Breakdown June 18th, 2014 4:17pm PDT

Items Accounted For: 6,460

Total Price: $74,018.58

Current Price: $72,318.2

Current Number of Items on Sale: 133

Current Savings: %0.02297 ($1,700.30)

Average Price: $11.46

Average Current Price: $11.19

Average Sale Discount: %56.526 ($12.78)

Regular Price Breakdown by Category

Downloadable Content: $29,666.96

Games : $39,964.35

Software : $4,387.27

Regular Price Breakdown by Platform

Linux : $8,434.45

Mac : $17,946.96

Steamplay: $18,317.58

Win : $73,938.61

Regular Price Breakdown by Genre

: $10,396.52

Action : $25,915.81

Adventure : $12,605.45

Audio Production : $909.74

Casual : $7,095.32

Early Access : $3,830.03

Free To Play : $6,654.06

Indie : $17,190.95

Massively Multiplayer: $4,164.14

No Genre Given : $2,465.27

RPG : $11,480.58

Racing : $2,218.66

Simulation : $14,648.90

Sports : $1,989.35

Strategy : $14,150.05

Utilities : $629.78

I was honestly expecting more both in number of items and in the overall sale amount, after the Steam Store is known for their sales. Anyways I have put the script up on github in case anybody wants to play around with it. The scraper is scraping more data that the stats are using, so if your looking for some specific information you might be able to get it out. It also supports loading old data sets to run comparisons against the big sales. Speaking of which there should be a Summer Sale any time now…