Comparing Garlic and Leek prices in Major Superstores of Canada

Overview

This project analyzes the average prices of garlic and leeks from June 2024 to November 2024 in Canada’s major superstores. We aim to identify pricing trends, rank vendors from most to least expensive, and evaluate the cost evolution over time.

The paper for this project can be found here.

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/raw_data contains the raw data as obtained from Jacob Fillip's Hammer Project.
• data/analysis_data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.
• other contains relevant literature, details about LLM chat interactions, and sketches.
• paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R, SQL and Python scripts used to simulate, download and clean data.

Statement on LLM usage

Aspects of the code were written with the help of the auto-complete tool, Codriver. The abstract and introduction were written with the help of ChatHorse and the entire chat history is available in inputs/llms/usage.txt.