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Using a Kalman Filter to Predict Ticket Prices

by Steve on May 9th, 2012 No Comments

Welcome back! In case you missed part one of this series, we're opening up the hood on Deal Score, one of SeatGeek's most popular features.
In part one we gave a brief overview of why we sort ticket listings by Deal Score rather than by price. We gave you our two main assumptions:

Seat quality, within a given venue, has a consistent ordering.
The relationship of seat price to seat quality follows a similar pattern across all events…

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The Math Behind Ticket Bargains

by Steve on April 26th, 2012 1 Comment

Greetings from SeatGeek Research Development!
I'm here today to take you behind the curtain of one of SeatGeek’s major features, Deal Score. For the uninitiated, Deal Score is a 0-to-100 rating that reveals whether a ticket is a great bargain or a major rip-off. We humbly believe it’s the best way to find tickets. I’d like to quickly tell you why and then spend most of this post discussing some of the math behind Deal Score’s…

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