Airbnb

[Kaggle - Where will a new guest book their first travel experience?] (https://www.kaggle.com/c/airbnb-recruiting-new-user-bookings) - 18th place solution

Introduction

The goal of this competition was to predict which in country a new user's first booking destination will be, using signup, session and demographic information. All of the users in the dataset are from the USA, with 12 possible outcomes for the destination country. The training and test sets are split by dates.

The evaluation metric for this competition was [normalised discounted cumulative gain @ 5] (https://www.kaggle.com/c/airbnb-recruiting-new-user-bookings/details/evaluation).

Performance

The solution obtained a rank of [18th out of 1462 entries] (https://www.kaggle.com/c/airbnb-recruiting-new-user-bookings/leaderboard/private) with a private leaderboard score of 0.88633.

Execution

1. Clone this repository
   
2. [Download the data from Kaggle] (https://www.kaggle.com/c/airbnb-recruiting-new-user-bookings/data) and place it in the working directory
3. Run XGB.R

Requirements

• R 3+