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+#+title: Roomies Manchester
+#+date: \today
+#+author: Craig Oates
+#+email: craig@craigoates.net
+#+language: en
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+
+* Gather Roomie Data (Manually)
+
+- [[https://www.roomies.co.uk/][Roomies]]
+
+The website requires you to create an account for full access to the site's
+listings. With that said, it does provide enough listings to chart the data. The
+amount of listings is tiny, compared to [[file:./spare-room-manchester.org][Spare Room]] (Manc.) and [[file:./right-move-manchester.org][Right Move]]
+(Manc.). So, I've downloaded the HTML manually, and going to process that data
+instead. The search filters I used:
+
+- Date: 2024-02-29
+- Location: Manchester
+- Price Range: £0–1200
+
+There are only twenty-three listings. I’ve stored the HTML is
+=raw-data/external/2024-02-29_roomies-manc/=. As is standard behaviour at this
+point, I won’t be committing that data to the repositories commit history.
+
+* Setup Common Lisp Environment
+
+I’ve copied the following code block over from other files. Run it if this is
+your first file open in the session.
+
+#+begin_src lisp :session :results silent
+  (ql:quickload :com.inuoe.jzon) ; JSON parser.
+  (ql:quickload :dexador)        ; HTTP requests.
+  (ql:quickload :plump)          ; HTML/XML parser.
+  (ql:quickload :lquery)         ; HTML/DOM manipulation.
+  (ql:quickload :lparallel)      ; Parallel programming.
+  (ql:quickload :cl-ppcre)       ; RegEx. library.
+  (ql:quickload :plot/vega)      ; Vega plotting library.
+  (ql:quickload :lisp-stat)      ; Stat's library.
+  (ql:quickload :data-frame)     ; Data frame library eqv. to Python's Numpy.
+  (ql:quickload :str)            ; String library, expands on 'string' library.
+#+end_src
+
+* TODO Clean Up and Parse Data
+
+This bit I need to start work on.