Starting a Community Database of Grinder particle size distributions

[darkamgine]

While I think this is an awesome tool, the real value would be in gathering and aggregating as much of this sort of data together as a community. If we are able to share all our grind distributions from all of our own grinders and compare them to each other, then we would be able to use the data to answer some often asked questions such as:

Is grinder X comparable or better than grinder Y?
Is it true that beans from origin A produce more fines than those from origin B?
What effect does the roast level, days past roast, etc. have on the grind quality?

I created a sample repo with my own data, but it would be better if you can approve/administrate this project with your wider reach and influence.

https://github.com/Coffee-Grind-Distribution/coffee-grind-distribution

[flowreaction]

I like this idea. I would think this would be a pretty nice web application, where anyone can upload a photo of their grindsize, and safe the results. This would make it a much easier to use application for people not familiar with python.

[martin-arusalu]

Since this is not and will not be a mobile app, have you thought about converting this into a public / moderated API? Then when combining the database idea here I could create a mobile app and link this to your API. And in exchange for using your functionality you could get and store all the data + stats (as the OP suggested).