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Data analysis for Airbnb in Seattle
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Data analysis for Airbnb in Seattle

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# Data Scientist Nanodegree
# Write A Data Science Blog Post
## Project 4: Seattle Airbnb

### Table of Contents

1. [Installation](#Installation)
2. [Project Motivation](#Project-Motivation)
3. [Data](#Data)
4. [File Descriptions](#File-Descriptions)
5. [Result](#Result)
6. [Blog](#Blog)

### Installation

This project requires **Python 3.x** and the following Python libraries installed:

- [SciPy](https://www.scipy.org/)
- [NumPy](http://www.numpy.org/)
- [Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/)
- [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/)
- [seaborn](https://seaborn.pydata.org/)
- [scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/)

You will also need to have software installed to run and execute an [iPython Notebook](http://ipython.org/notebook.html)

We recommend students install [Anaconda](https://www.continuum.io/downloads), a pre-packaged Python distribution that contains all of the necessary libraries and software for this project.

### Project Motivation

> For this project, you will pick a dataset. Inspired by Robert, there are a few public datasets from Airbnb available below, but you may also choose a dataset similar to what was used in the lessons, or an entirely different dataset. Using your dataset, you will choose 3 questions you aspire to answer from the data.

I chose Airbnb data in Seattle, and have the following three questions:

- What is the seasonal pattern of Airbnb in Seattle?

- What kinds of Airbnb homes are popular?

- What are the most influential features about the rental price?

### Data

The data about Airbnb in Seattle can be downloaded from **Kaggle**:

[Seattle Airbnb Open Data](https://www.kaggle.com/airbnb/seattle/data)

### File Descriptions

Jupyter Notebook ([seattle_airbnb.ipynb](https://github.com/LucasBoTang/Project_Seattle_Airbnb/blob/master/seattle_airbnb.ipynb)) works related to the above questions.

### Result

- Because of the weather, spring and summer are the busy season with higher rental price. But there still remains a question, why dose January have the highest occupancy rate?

- Airbnb homes which have entertainment nearby, a soon response from host or flexible cancellation policy are more popular.

- About rental price, the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, neighborhood and type of properties play important roles.

### Blog

[What Seattle Airbnb Data Can Tell Us](https://medium.com/@lucastang1994/what-seattle-airbnb-data-can-tell-us-263fbff8581a)