task_categories:tabular-regression task_categories:time-series-forecasting language:en license:mit License Plate Auction Timeline region:us
---
language: 
- "en"
pretty_name: "Shanghai License Plate Auction 2014-2021"
tags:
- "License Plate"
- "Auction"
- "Timeline"
license: "mit"
task_categories:
- "tabular-regression"
- "time-series-forecasting"
---

# Introduction
Second-by-second price updates from the last 60 seconds of the monthly license plate auction in Shanghai from 2014 to 2020, and a few months of 2021. The seconds data is given as a differential compared to the startprice. I managed to correctly predict and score a license plate on all three years that I worked on the project during 2018-2020. But it's not easy as there are lots of other factors affecting success on top of prediction accuracy.

# Read More
To learn the details about the auction process and why it is so darn hard, please read my [article series](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-1-applied-ml-timeline-prediction-shanghai-license-tianyi-pan) on LinkedIn.