Use product data and scan data to compute the main countries where a product is sold #5086
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Scan statistics allow us to concentrate efforts on impactful products, and add countries where sold
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I plan to create a new MainCountries module:
Products on Open Food Facts have a countries_tags field that list the countries
where a product is sold. The information is entered by users, food producers,
and additional countries are added by the scanbot.pl script if a product
is scanned by 5 or more different IP addresses in a specific country.
In some cases, products may be marked as sold in a country even it is not widely
sold in that country. For instance, a lot of discount shops import products that
are intended for sale to other countries. Scan data can be tricky as well:
people who live close to a border often shop in another country, and they
may scan products when they are back in their home country.
This module tries to determine which countries a product is "mostly" sold in.
The determination can be made on different factors:
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