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DataHub Methodology

How we aggregate, validate, and protect data

Overview

All DataHub reports contain aggregated, category-level data derived from the Coosti price comparison platform. No individual product, merchant, or competitive data is exposed.

Data Sources

source

Coosti internal database

products tracked

Thousands of products across major Danish retailers

update frequency

Data aggregated monthly

coverage

All major product categories

Aggregation Methods

category level

All metrics are calculated at the category level, never for individual products

price calculations

Average and median prices calculated from active offers only

anonymization

Merchant-specific data is never included in public reports

minimum threshold

Categories must have minimum 10 products to be included

Metrics Definitions

avg_price

Mean price across all active offers in the category

median_price

Middle value when all prices are sorted

price_change

Percentage change compared to historical period

volatility_score

0-100 score based on frequency and magnitude of price changes

discount_percent

Percentage reduction from highest price in last 90 days

Data Quality Assurance

validation

All prices validated against merchant websites

outlier removal

Statistical outliers removed to prevent skewing

active offers only

Only includes offers from active merchants

failed crawls excluded

Offers with crawling failures are excluded

Privacy & Compliance

gdpr compliant

No personal data included

merchant protection

No merchant-specific insights exposed

competitive safety

Data aggregated to prevent competitive intelligence extraction

License & Usage

type

CC-BY 4.0

usage

Free to use with attribution

attribution required

Please cite: "Data from Coosti (https://coosti.dk)"

attribution html

Data from <a href="https://coosti.dk">Coosti</a>