Japan Hostel Finder





Group Members:

Kumanan A/L N Govaichelvan (17096921)
Law Chuan Liang (S2003493)
Teh Lee Leng (S2012133)
William Heng Chun Meng (S2005592)

Date: 21 January 2021

Introduction

Japan Hostel Finder is an online platform that connects people who is looking for budget accommodation with the room-sharing / bunkbed hostel in Japan.

Goals:

  • Helps the users to find hostels based on their budget and preference
  • Helps the users to find a cheaper option

What We Learn:

  • We were exposed to the data science project flow and deploy Shiny App.
  • We discovered a more efficient way to search for accommodations.

Data Science Process

Process Description
Asking the right question - How do we helps the users to find hostels based on their budget and preference?
Get data - Source 1 : https://www.kaggle.com/koki25ando/hostel-world-dataset [Contains Hostel Prices, Rating and Coordinates]
- Source 2 : Scrap Japan Metro Station location from Google Map to add value to the main dataset
Data cleaning - Removed NAs records & outlier
- cleaned hostels and metro stations coordinates
Data processing Pair the nearest metro station to the hostels
Data analysis Descriptive & Exploratory

Features 2: Insights