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1. VacAdvisor
Fred N. Kiwanuka
Fellow Insight Data Science
July 1, 2015
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2. Can $1000 take me for a vacation in Hawaii for a week?
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3. The Data
Federal Data Google Flight Data
Parks & Beaches Museum
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4. Features
Flight Cost from New York
Average cost of hotels
Average daily expenses including car
Location of city [east, west, central, south, north]
City specifics like beaches, museum, national parks
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5. Conceptual Framework
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6. Algorithm
Feature Space Clustering
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7. Observations
Results show that for many destinations, one could save up to
25% by choosing some of the recommended cities with similar
attributes rather than their initial selection
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8. About Me
Fred N. Kiwanuka, PhD Groningen The Netherlands,
MSC(London), MIT(Teaching Fellow)
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