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Airbnb Valuation: A Machine Learning Approach, Katherine Wyatt
Airbnb Valuation: A Machine Learning Approach, Katherine Wyatt
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses a geospatially-enhanced, machine learning approach to investigate variations in rental success on the peer-to-peer property sharing website Airbnb.com. Geographic factors, listing attributes and amenities, customer response metrics, and host attributes are included in decision tree modeling to predict the short-term probability of receiving a review. The most important variables in increasing model accuracy are assessed and variations in the importance of these variables investigated using Shapley values.