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fix: fix some typos in the landing page (#51)
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Expand Up @@ -31,29 +31,26 @@ <h2 class="emphasized-title" id="why-open-prices">Why Open
products around the world. It’s a publicly available dataset
that can be used for research, analysis, and more. Open
Prices is developed and maintained by <a href="https://world.openfoodfacts.org">Open Food Facts</a>.</p>
<p>At present, historical prices of food products are owned by a
few companies that sell them to private companies,
researchers or other organizations and are not freely
accessible. This project aims to change that, by mobilizing
people everywhere to share the prices they see in their
local shops.</p>
<p>There are currently few companies that own large databases of product prices
at the barcode level. These prices are not freely available, but sold at a high price to
private actors, researchers and other organizations that can afford them.</p>
<h2 class="emphasized-title" id="how-does-open-prices-work">How
does Open Prices work?</h2>
<p>We’re crowdsourcing an open-source dataset of food prices.
<p>We are crowdsourcing an open-source dataset of food prices.
Prices can be added by retailers or hackers through <a
href="https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/docs">our API</a>.
A web and mobile app is in the works to make it easier for
people to add prices.</p>
<p>Open Prices is not only meant to store individual prices, but
<p>Open Prices is not only meant to store individual prices, but also
consumption baskets, i.e. the list of products that people
buy in a single shopping trip. This data is extremely
interesting for researchers to analyze food consumption
habits.</p>
<p>When possible, we ask contributors to always provide a proof
<p>When possible, we ask contributors to provide a proof
of the price, in the form of a photo of the price tag or
receipt. This is to ensure the quality of the data and to
make it easier to ensure data quality.</p>
<p>If you’re providing a receipt as the proof image, it means
<p>If you are providing a receipt as the proof image, it means
you agree to submit your consumption basket to Open Prices.
We will anonymize the receipt and make it publicly
available, so that it can be used for research purpose. If
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<p><a href="https://world.openfoodfacts.org">Open Food Facts</a> is a non-profit organisation that collects
and shares information on food products from around the
world. It’s a collaborative project that relies on
world. It is a collaborative project that relies on
volunteers to collect data. Open Food Facts is the
largest open food products database in the world, with over
3.0 million products in 200 countries.</p>
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</div>
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<p>Price information is of paramount importance to
understand
the food system. It’s a key factor in understanding the
understand food systems. It’s a key factor in understanding the
cost
of food, of following a healthy diet, and of food waste.
Opening price data is a way to make it easier for
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