NYC Airbnb Analysis

Group Member: Chengyu Wu, Yijing Lin, Lingqin Yang, Zhexin Hu.

The project aims to

• Identify characteristics that contribute to the popularity of Airbnb listing in New York City.
• Help Airbnb listing owners improve listing popularity.

Data Collection

• Web scraping from Airbnb: BeautifulSoup, Webdriver, Json, Pickle, Pandas, Numpy.
• Google Maps API: Places API Nearby Search.
• CSV of crime information in NYC: Pandas, Numpy.

Data Analysis: Popularity

Overview of NYC rating distribution