Predicting Airbnb prices with machine learning and deep learning

Experimentation with XGBoost and tuning neural networks

Laura Lewis
Towards Data Science
10 min readMay 22, 2019

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Source: plumguide.com

Project aims and background

Airbnb is a home-sharing platform that allows home-owners and renters (‘hosts’) to put their properties (‘listings’) online, so that guests can pay to stay in them. Hosts are expected to set…

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Data Scientist at Amazon. Previously in data in startups, academia and government. Oxford PhD.