My Team Solution to UmojaHack Algeria: Yassir ETA Prediction Challenge
Established in 2017, Yassir is the leading ride-hailing company in Algeria. It covers all major Algerian cities and is expanding its services to Tunisia, Morocco and France. Besides ride-hailing services, Yassir is making customers’ lives easier by providing diversified services such as goods and food delivery as well as telemedicine.
Ride-hailing apps like Uber and Yassir rely on real-time data and machine learning algorithms to automate their services.
The objective of this hackathon is to predict the estimated time of arrival at the dropoff point for a single Yassir journey.
Our solution was based on XGBOOST model, and on creating new features using the provided data. The New York City Taxi Trip Duration on Kaggle was a great inspiration since the problem is similar.