Galactic Commodity Futures

Inspired by the vast trading opportunities hinted at in 'Nightfall' and the desperate need for resource assessment in 'Interstellar,' this project aims to create a niche 'Big Data' platform focused on predicting the future value of hypothetical interstellar commodities. The 'E-Commerce Pricing' scraper's core logic will be adapted to analyze patterns and trends in publicly available, but otherwise unrelated, economic data (e.g., stock market fluctuations, commodity prices of rare earth metals, geological survey data). The 'story' is that of a decentralized, AI-driven market prediction service for an emergent interstellar economy. Individuals can contribute by providing computational power or specialized datasets. The 'how it works' involves scraping diverse economic data sources, cleaning and aggregating them into a unified dataset, and then applying machine learning models (e.g., time-series analysis, regression models) to identify correlations and predict future price movements of fictional interstellar goods like 'Xylosian Crystals' or 'Nebula Gas.' The niche lies in its fictional but plausible application, low implementation cost (utilizing open-source tools and cloud services), and high earning potential through a subscription model for its predictive analytics, catering to science fiction enthusiasts, speculative fiction writers, or even educational institutions exploring economic modeling in hypothetical scenarios.