{"id":41,"date":"2011-12-12T01:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lamont\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-03-06T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:42:42","slug":"what-do-people-sell-on-craigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/2011\/12\/12\/what-do-people-sell-on-craigslist\/","title":{"rendered":"What do people sell on Craigslist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled a large dataset of what people are selling on Craigslist. This is for my mobile classifieds startup (UPDATE: the app is no longer available). The small release is from <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.craigslist.org\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Craigslist<\/a> only, and it&#8217;s only raw percentages. One interesting finding is how vehicle-related classifieds dominate Craigslist. Another is the huge swings among some categories, depending on what time of the day\/week\/year the sample is taken. Read the Invantory blog post to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2011\/12\/craigslist_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2011\/12\/craigslist_pic-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"Craigslist -- online community\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2011\/12\/craigslist_pic-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lamont\/files\/2011\/12\/craigslist_pic.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have other Craigslist data as well, including estimates of market size, average price, and data from other times and from other areas. I&#8217;ll probably release some of it in the weeks or months to come, but really want to focus on our new software platform for local classifieds.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting fact about the dataset is the connection to my Extension School studies. My ALM thesis was based on a computer content analysis of a news database to discern various policy trends. For many months, I spent my nights and weekends sitting in front of a computer screen, copying and pasting results from the LexisNexis Academic to a gigantic Excel spreadsheet, and then taking sample news articles and subjecting them to a computer content analysis using a software program called Yoshikoder. The Craigslist data was compiled in a similar way. While I didn&#8217;t use Yoshikoder this time around, I did perform a manual coding process on the Craigslist Boston data which I used to create market sizing estimates. To learn more about my ALM thesis at the Extension School, google &#8220;Harvard Extended&#8221; and read the first entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled a large dataset of what people are selling on Craigslist. This is for my mobile classifieds startup (UPDATE: the app is no longer available). The small release is from Boston Craigslist only, and it&#8217;s only raw percentages. One interesting finding is how vehicle-related classifieds dominate Craigslist. 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