Yeah, I would definitely love to do a place match based on vendor info, using hints like 4sq checkins, but my gut tells me that it's probably going to be pretty low yield. From scanning about 2 years worth of amex transactions last night, there's often not great vendor info. Most disappointing, the location information is almost always completely missing. Hopefully other banks supply better data. We'll see.
On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 2:10:25 PM UTC-5, Eric Drechsel wrote: > > Partially answering my own question: whitelisting a few categories like > Food and Drink, Recreation could probably catch 90% of in person > transactions, with some false positives. Not sure how you'd identify the > appropriate Place from foursquare data or whatever though. > https://github.com/plaid/Support/blob/master/categories.md > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Eric Drechsel <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> This sounds super cool. I'm very interested in importing transactions. >> Aside from financial history, this data might be useful as an additional >> source of foursquare-style checkins, if transactions could be reliably >> associated with places. I wonder if Plaid's normalization does anything to >> indicate whether a transaction was an in-person. >> >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Michael Morrissey <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> As an experiment to learn the flow of importers, I put together a quick >>> PoC of importing my credit card transactions using Plaid >>> <https://plaid.com/>. (Why let credit card companies have all the fun >>> with your data?) There's still a ton to do, but I have the rough outline >>> now. >>> >>> So some questions: >>> - Is there general interest in importing transactions? If so, I'll keep >>> going. >>> - Any objections to pulling in Plaid's go library >>> <https://github.com/plaid/plaid-go>? (MIT license) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Michael >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Camlistore" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> best, Eric >> eric.pdxhub.org <http://pdxhub.org/people/eric> >> >> > > > -- > best, Eric > eric.pdxhub.org <http://pdxhub.org/people/eric> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
