Numbeo:Aggregating User Generated Data

I (and apparently about 100 other journalists and outlets) received an e-mail from Mladen Adamovic introducing his new offering Numbeo. He’s an ex-Google employee and notes that in his communication:“How expensive is your city? Former Google employee makes an analyzing software.”It’s unclear if this is a hobby site or a commercial effort,but the terms of use are wide open,though data use requires attribution. There’s also a big warning that the data may not be accurate and hasn’t been reviewed by humans. Work planned for this summer aims to identify “incorrect data.”

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