{"id":37291,"date":"2025-12-21T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/help-me-figure-out-what-to-do-with-this-massive-israeli-car-data-file-i-stumbled-upon\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:27:21","slug":"help-me-figure-out-what-to-do-with-this-massive-israeli-car-data-file-i-stumbled-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/help-me-figure-out-what-to-do-with-this-massive-israeli-car-data-file-i-stumbled-upon\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Figure Out What To Do With This Massive Israeli Car Data File I Stumbled Upon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Okay, so here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; I somehow ended up with this massive file that&#8217;s got like a million lines of what looks like Israeli car data. It&#8217;s all separated by these pipe characters (|) and has Hebrew writing mixed in. From what I can tell by looking at it, it&#8217;s got stuff about different cars &#8211; models, years, engine info, all that &#8211; but written out in Hebrew. Kinda wild.<\/p>\n<p>02263039|0650|P|\u00f1\u00e5\u00e1\u00e0\u00f8\u00e5 \u00e9\u00f4\u00ef|0226|GP3ELCC|XV|XV|1.6 PREMIUM|5|14|2016|FB 16 <\/p>\n<p>02258339|0650|P|\u00f1\u00e5\u00e1\u00e0\u00f8\u00e5 \u00e9\u00f4\u00ef|0247|GP7ELUC|XV|XV|2.0I|5|14|2016|FB 20 <\/p>\n<p>02279939|0650|P|\u00f1\u00e5\u00e1\u00e0\u00f8\u00e5 \u00e9\u00f4\u00ef|0253|SJ5DL7C|FORESTER|FORESTER|2.0XS|5|14|2017|FB 20 <\/p>\n<p>02247639|0650|P|\u00f1\u00e5\u00e1\u00e0\u00f8\u00e5 \u00e9\u00f4\u00ef|0243|GP7ELTC|XV|XV|2.0 PREMIUM|5|14|2016|FB 20 <\/p>\n<p>01851239|0650|P|\u00f1\u00e5\u00e1\u00e0\u00f8\u00e5 \u00e9\u00f4\u00ef|0228|GP7ELUC|XV|XV|2.0I|1|14|2017|FB 20 <\/p>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;ve Figured Out:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pipe-delimited format<\/li>\n<li>Column 4: Hebrew vehicle descriptions (decodes to makes\/models like Honda CR-V, Seat, BMW)<\/li>\n<li>Column 12: Year (1999-2017+)<\/li>\n<li>Column 13: Engine codes (G4LC = Hyundai\/Kia 1.4L, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Columns 10-11: Likely cylinders and engine displacement<\/li>\n<li>ISO-8859-8 encoding for Hebrew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Questions for the Community:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Does anyone recognize this specific data format or structure?<\/li>\n<li>What industries would find this data most valuable?<\/li>\n<li>Any creative but legitimate applications for this type of automotive dataset?<\/li>\n<li>What are the best ways to process\/enhance this data?<\/li>\n<li>Any Israeli-specific considerations I should know about?<\/li>\n<li>Has anyone worked with similar automotive data commercially?<\/li>\n<li>What might the other columns represent (1-3, 5-9)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have technical skills (Python, SQL, APIs) to work with this but need domain knowledge about what&#8217;s actually valuable here and how to properly interpret the structure.<\/p>\n<p>Not looking to share the full dataset publicly, but happy to provide more samples if helpful for analysis. Interested in legitimate applications and technical insights.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for any help!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Only1_abdou\"> \/u\/Only1_abdou <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1prsitj\/help_me_figure_out_what_to_do_with_this_massive\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1prsitj\/help_me_figure_out_what_to_do_with_this_massive\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-37291 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='37291' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-37291 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-37291 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; I somehow ended up with this massive file that&#8217;s got like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}