A Quick Picture of Boston and Seattle Airbnb Data
Based on Cross-Industry Standard Process of Data Mining (CRISP-DM), the Boston and Seatle Airbnb datasets were collected and investigated. Three bisinuess questions were asked and answered:
- Is there any noticeable difference between Seattle and Boston Airbnb?
- What are the most important features to estimate Airbnb rental price?
- What are the top amenities people needs most?
- A Descriptive Jupyter Notebook
- Two datasets: Detailed Listings data for Boston and Seattle which were collected Aug.19th. Dataset Link: http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html
Results and discussion were published on Medium: https://medium.com/@rubszion/a-quick-picture-of-boston-and-seattle-airbnb-data-20e5e5c8cc60? In this project, I dived into the most recent Airbnb Boston and Seattle dataset and found many interesting phenomenom:
- We gathered the Boston and Seattle Airbnb data, and compare the two dataset.
- We established a machine learning model to predict the rental price for both cities.
- We took a look at the feature importance of the trained model and check if they make sense.
- We list all the important amenities to get a better feeling how host can make more money by providing better services to meet customers’ need.