Price Predictions with AirBnb listing Data

Motivation

I wanted to check if I can use XGBoost to predict AirBnb listing prices based on information that is typically found in the listing page. Price prediction and recommendations are a big part of the offering for a lot of travel related websites (hotels.com, booking.com, etc).

The Data

The data is from Inside Airbnb. For this exercise, I picked up only listings from Toronto.

Problem Type

Regression

Model Used

XGBoost's regressor: XGBRegressor

Analysis

The analysis can be found here.

Attributions

• Inside Airbnb
• scikit-learn
• XGBoost