Kaggle: Airbnb New User Bookings

This repository contains python script for Kaggle: Airbnb New User Bookings.

My Results

Final Submitted Version

• Public LB score: 0.88029 (134th / 1463)
• Private LB score: 0.88566 (86th / 1463)

This Repository Version

I modified model after the compettion is over.

• Public LB score: 0.88097
• Private LB score: 0.88598

Models

I used the xgboost to create following models.

Models	Public	Private
no sessions data	0.86531	0.86991
users + sessions	0.88097	0.88598

Note: users + sessions Model requires 32GB+ RAM because sessions.csv has 10M+ rows.

Dependencies

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Python 2.7.11 Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit)

Python Packages

• numpy 1.10.4
• scipy 0.16.1
• pandas 0.16.2
• scikit-learn 0.17
• xgboost 0.4a29

How to Run

Please download data from kaggle and add csv files into ./input/*.csv.

$python all_run.py

Note: It takes around 5 hours on my PC(Intel Core i5, 32GB RAM).