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Data and methodology for the Big Mac index
12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-10-10 · latest 2024-03-15
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…against neighboring countries (eg. Switzerland or Sweden) the difference is nowhere near 2x. [1] https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/blob/master/out...
comment by gruez · 2024-03-15 · in Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023) -
…they document exactly how they calculate the big mac index and how they choose the price. https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data#methodology-cha...
comment by tekla · 2024-01-13 · in A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's -
…Pretty awesome to have actually accurate data. [1] https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index [2] https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data
comment by crazygringo · 2024-01-13 · in A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's -
…afford one big mac with an hour of minimum wage today (minimum wage: $7.25, big mac: $5.36). 0 - https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/blob/master/sou... 1 - https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart
comment by bryik · 2023-08-02 · in Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging -
…than big macs, thereby dragging the growth of the basket down and explaining the difference. [1] https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/ [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEFV [3] https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view
comment by gruez · 2023-03-18 · in Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits -
…article ( https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index ) where they further link to their methodology: https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data The USA average seemed high to me, and I found this resource:…
comment by eulers_secret · 2022-02-05 · in The Big Mac index: Our interactive currency comparison tool -
Interesting, the prices and choices. See also https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index and https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data , though you may want more historicals.
comment by arh68 · 2021-07-31 · in Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009) -
Github has a helpful CSV file grid view that I never noticed before. https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/blob/master/sou...
comment by francisofascii · 2020-02-18 · in Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index -
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Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac indexstory by mkirchner · 2020-02-17 · 27 comments
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…Big Mac index: https://www.economist.com/news/2019/01/10/the-big-mac-index The data is on github: https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data
comment by simongr3dal · 2019-01-15 · in Big Mac trademark cancelled across Europe -
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TheEconomist/big-mac-data: Data and Methodology for the Big Mac Indexstory by vinnyglennon · 2018-10-23 · 0 comments
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GitHub repository for the data behind The Economist’s Big Mac indexstory by sohkamyung · 2018-10-10 · 1 comment