Airbnb-pricing

DESCRIPTION

Code for training and evaluating an Airbnb price prediction model. Made by Team Data Viz-ards for CSE 6242 Project, Spring 2020.

INSTALLATION

Ensure that you have Python 3.7.6 and virtualenv installed. Then perform the following steps:

1. Clone or download this repository and cd into it.
2. Create a Python 3.7.6 virtualenv, and activate it:

virtualenv --python=path_to_your_python_executable venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

EXECUTION

Simply run:

python AirbnbModel.py

This will train and evaluate the model on the provided dataset - updatedFinalData.csv and generate output files to store predictions, feature importance values, and save the model to disk.