Because there's not enough fun datasets
Opensourcing a PSG ticket price evolution dataset.
Beginnings are hard.
It has been a long time since I have wanted to get this rolling back, and I guess the best way is through an open source dataset:
1. Why this, why now
Just tidying some things and figured this dataset would be fun to be shared. During this football season I always wondered if tickets get cheaper or more expensive the closer the match is and many other data oriented questions. I believe other people will have the same questions or probably would have better ideas to use it.
2. About the data
Data is the result of scraping PSG's marketplace called Ticketplace. For now, only the 2023 - 2024 season is available but I plan to release updates to it. The data was collected to analyze the ticket prices of PSG's matches and to predict the ticket prices for future matches. I also would like to hear from you if you have any ideas on how to use this data and your results. I am open to collaborations.
- About Data collection methodology
Data was collected through Node.js. I cannot provide any more information but in case you want to know more about the methodology, feel free to contact me. If you have inputs on how to improve it, I would be happy to hear them. I also am only releasing a csv but maybe json or sql would be better. I am open to suggestions.
- Description of the data
Data structure is quite simple. There are 5 columns: ts, fixture, category, quantity and price. The ts column is the timestamp of the data collection. The fixture column is the match that the ticket is for. The category column is the category of the ticket. The quantity column is the number of tickets available for that category. The price column is the price of the ticket.
ts;fixture;category;quantity;price
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 16;1;67,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 5;1;136,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 13;1;78,99 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 12;1;75,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 14;1;69,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 9;1;98,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 17;1;59,99 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 6;1;125,00 €
1692806160841,match-foot-masculin-paris-vs-lens-1;CATEGORIE 7;1;115,00 €
You will be able to find the dataset hosted on a repo GitHub : https://github.com/Eastkap/psg-data
3. Keep me posted!
One of the main reasons I am releasing this dataset is because I believe it could be very useful for student projects. There are very seldom opportunities to work with data that looks sexy and is opensource, I hope this fills the gap a bit.