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Stats is the science of sciences in my opinion, and anyone who brings it to life like this is awesome.

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Have you seen Efficiency Is Everything's data on food?

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/food/

Nope hadn’t seen that before. Thank you! Ironically I am not a big efficiency person but where I am very interested in efficiency is foods. Like what food has the best amino acid profile for the dollar, that kind of thing. And this appears to be that.

That site is amazing and engrossing. Thank you for this link - I think I'm going to loose myself in excel for a few hours. Nutrients/calorie and nutrients/dollar are incredibly useful metrics for anyone while shopping!

It's not really useful. It's extremely easy to get plenty of nutrients and calories extremely cheaply, but that's not what people are paying for when they shop for food.

Please share your data on everyone's shopping habits.

I take it you don't engage in strenuous physical activities far from grocers. For instance.

How does distance traveled relate to willingness to pay a higher price for food?

It’s almost as if it costs money to transport goods or something.

Awesome data, I really wish it was presented better. Screenshots of tabular data?! Nothing is searchable. Alignment is all over the place.

Any pages in particular? I tried to either have the excel file on page, or leave it in an HTML table.

Btw, thats my next big overhaul. How would you want the data? Javascript HTML table?

Yes, a clean html table would perfect. Sortable! There is just data everywhere, simple alignment would go a long way. Thanks for your hard work!

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