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Bratabase API?
Hi there! I was wondering if the Bratabase API was still up and running? I keep getting error 502 when I try to access the developer's site or API endpoint.
I appreciate it! I love the site and have used it to find a bra that fits.
If you're curious...I'm trying to gather up measurement data for bras and user measurements from r/ABraThatFits. I'd like to visualize and explore the data, maybe construct a clustering model to help users locate their individual size and shape and see what bras are clustered near them.
No idea if it will work, but it'll be a fun data science side project!
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I don't know if it will be that useful. Everyone measures differently.
I'm worried I'm messing up the data with my Gorsenia bras: I took them right out of the box to measure them - so they're directly from the workroom floor & never been tried on before. I just give the bands a gentle stretch and measure them to 28.5 inches. (70 bands). Obviously, they have to stretch further than that because my underbust is 30.3 inches and they fit me fine. Then I looked at other people's data, and they're measuring Gorsenia bands to 31 inches (70 bands) so, whatever.
Also, measuring "cup depth" it's hard to do that accurately when it's a stretchy cup; obviously stiff cups (padded) shouldn't very that much.
Yeah...that's an unfortunate reality of using real-word data that isn't measured by a machine.
I have a few options for dealing with the outliers...from simple z-score/box-plot/3-sigma detection methods to more complicated ML algorithms. Then I could apply MICE (multivariate imputation by chained equations) to fill in the missing data.
I'd have to explore the data to know more! :)
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