Airbnb Seasonalities: Lisbon vs Rio de Janeiro

How does the effect of seasonalities differ for Airbnbs that reside in the Northern and Southern hemisphere, considering the difference in summer and winter season timings due to their geographical location?

Motivation

The vacation seasons is one of the most busy time periods for Airbnb hosts, with an large influx of tourists traveling to popular vacation spots to spend their holidays, increasing the demand therefore the prices. Nevertheless, the vacation seasons differ depending on the hemisphere. This project aims to compare the price of Airbnb between various cities across the globe situated in two different hemispheres, to determine the effect of seasonality on the price of Airbnb in these cities.

Methods and results

Method:

Data will be acquired from Inside Airbnb
Data cleaning/auditing will be performed as required
Regression analysis will be performed on the date and prices
Automate and refine this process

Repository overview

├── README.md
├── data
├── gen
│   ├── analysis
│   ├── data-preparation
│   └── paper
└── src
   ├── analysis
   ├── data-preparation
   └── paper

Running instructions

More resources

About

This repository is a project for the course Data Preparation and Workflow Management at Tilburg University.

Example of reproducible research workflow

This is a basic example repository using Gnu make for a reproducible research workflow, as described in detail here: tilburgsciencehub.com.

The main aim of this to have a basic structure, which can be easily adjusted to use in an actual project. In this example project, the following is done:

Download and prepare data
Run some analysis
Present results in a final pdf generated using LaTeX

Dependencies

R
R packages: install.packages("stargazer")
Gnu Make
TeX distribution
For the makefile to work, R, Gnu make and the TeX distribution (specifically pdflatex) need to be made available in the system path
Detailed installation instructions can be found here: tilburgsciencehub.com

Notes

make clean removes all unncessary temporary files.
Tested under Linux Mint (should work in any linux distro, as well as on Windows and Mac)
IMPORTANT: In makefile, when using \ to split code into multiple lines, no space should follow \. Otherwise Gnu make aborts with error 193.
Many possible improvements remain. Comments and contributions are welcome!

MevludinAdemovic/Airbnb-Seasonalities-Lisbon-vs-Rio-de-Janeiro