May 24, 20202 min readDashboarding? Tom-ato, tom-ate-o What's the difference?! A ranking out of 10 on different criteria is made between 3 major dashboarding tools from personal experience. Speed : In terms of speed...
May 24, 20201 min readTLDR? No worries, we got you!Want to know our final outputs? But no patience to read such lengthy blogs? No worries, we have a solution: This video goes through our...
May 23, 20203 min readAll is well that ends well Have you ever been in a situation where you want to select or purchase a product but are overwhelmed by the options and varieties...
May 23, 20202 min readWiFi: Check, Kitchen: Check, Parking:?Diving deeper into what amenities are favorable to guests, we wanted to check which ones were the most frequently offered. Our data set...
May 23, 20202 min readKnow your host better!To help create comfortable, reliable stays for guests, we check if all the hosts meet these basic requirements for their listings: Be...
May 22, 20201 min readNo more icky toilets, but at what cost?As we move further into our analysis we wanted to understand what does and does not sell in accommodations at a very granular level.We...
May 22, 20201 min readComfort CountsThis plot is to check if the number of people a place accommodates has an effect on the price. The outliers of the price values are also...
May 22, 20201 min readMotivation to ReviewThe plot of the different host response time was plotted against review scores for communication. This was shown for the three different...
May 19, 20201 min readWhich city is the best choice to stay? Which city is the best choice to stay when you travel to Belgium? Maybe, the analysis based on the city-level Airbnb can give you some...
May 18, 20201 min readHow to choose neighbourhood in Brussels, Antwerp or Ghent?After choosing the cities, the neighborhood may be the next level that users of Airbnb may consider. Hence, how to choose the...
May 17, 20202 min readPlotting Maps using vegaThis week, we tried to figure out the problem of how to show our data on the map. There are two ways to make maps. One way is to make...
Apr 29, 20202 min readMaking it interactive - Comparing Cities This week, we have finally made the transition from paper to software. We have created a few of the previously discussed plots using...
Apr 29, 20202 min readDashboard IdeasNow, we focus on possibilities of representation of all this data on a dashboard or interactive software tool. Figure 1: Sketches for...
Apr 29, 20202 min readJust keep digging!In this post, we try to go even further and make plots that combine several variables together and help us really figure out what the...
Apr 27, 20203 min readCreative Caps On!We had an intermediate presentation where the past 3 posts were discussed with the Professor and teaching assistants. It was decided that...
Apr 27, 20202 min readDigging the Data Once we had the main question in place, we wanted to start digging the data - trying to find some patterns or some interesting findings....
Apr 23, 20202 min readScope and Research Questions In the second week, we tried to explore deeply of our final dataset and drew the basic structure of research questions. Figure 1 was the...
Apr 20, 20204 min readWhat do we work on?In the first week, we discussed our initial plans. There were three candidates for the final project. The first dataset was about Airbnb...