#whiskyvaluation

Happy New Year

For 2017 I decided to through down the gauntlet, I have uploaded a lot of my data to the database regardless of whether or not I had tidied it...

As ever the data is poor and I will be continuing the never ending task of cleaning and preparing extra data for the site. The data is pulled from a few auction sites, actually 5 in total from around Europe. This data is updated monthly and still DOES NOT INCLUDE COMMISSION or FEES.

Hi again

Database Update

Over the past few months we at Whisky Valuation have work tirelessly to expand our dataset to provide an ever better automatic valuation tool for Whisky Enthusiasts. Today we took a huge step towards realising this by gathering data from a number of extra auction sitess, ultimately expanding our dataset to almost a quarter of a million whisky sales.

We, as always are working to tidy this data, match and display it on our website. The aim is to allow fast, free, easy and simple valuations for experts and newbies alike.

New Feature - Most Sales Page

We introduced a new simple page to our site today, this page displays the Top 25 Auction Sales in a simple table. It makes for an interesting read that I will no doubt be using for more blog posts (Ardbeg, perhaps as expected controls the top 10).

Hi again

I migrated our Site to a new host recently and finally have everything up and running as expected. This is much more resilient, interesting and hopefully more economical (bare in mind this a free service, we don't charge anything for valuations).

I have updated our database with the last few auction results, this increased our dataset to well over 100,000 sales and the final load covers a period up to June 2016. This includes around 4,000 new published prices and a few more published whisky to select.

I've been thinking about the site recently, if anyone has any comments or ideas to improve things please get Contact Us.

We have released another update to the site this morning. Changes are:

An extra 3500 lots to plot data from

An extra 5 distilleries to filter

An extra 200 whiskies to filter

Big database update today, we cleansed a lot of data and introduced around 30 whiskies into our search tool. The cleansed data corrects spelling/titles and formats of existing searchable whiskies to increase the dataset (by over 1000 lots....). The new whiskies include a range of Macallan's, Flora and Fauna whiskies and a couple of Buffalo Trace as I know how popular those are right now.

In total our database now holds over 61,000 whisky sales with thousands of distinct whiskies included. We have increased our online search tool to include only 150 of these (each whisky requires us to manually confirm it's accuracy before publishing - we try to be quick but we just don't have the time to cover everything), those 150 whiskies are some of the most popular auction items covering in excess of 8000 sales over the past few years.

We have been considering expanding the site to allow users to register and login allowing yourselves to store searches as "collections" and to introduce a range of new functionality. If you have any thoughts or would like us to search our unpublished database (or to publish a specific whisky to the site) get in touch. We would love to hear from you.