Notes from today's brainstorming meeting, in no particular order.
- What does Airbnb market in NYC look like?
- Impact of proximity of (hotels, subways, attractions) on listing price
- How does Airbnb impact normal residential rent prices?
- What happened after Airbnb purged ~1,000 listings from NYC?
- Are the "bad actors" good hosts?
- Can we easily find people who are gaming the system (e.g., multiple fake accounts likely by same person)?
- Are there any signs of the positive effects (e.g., boost to local businesses) that Airbnb claims?
- How do people get guests?
- How do words/terms in reviews affect price?
- Where do the renters come from?
- Where are people booking?
- How long do they stay?
- Value of subletting vs. posting on Airbnb
- How do people advertise their places?
- What words are effective for ratings, boosting price
- Geographically discriminating words (words conditional on location)
- Where are the safe locations?
- Company policy changes (e.g., near Redmond, Seattle, etc.)
- Impact of the photo quality on listing price
- A map from the data collectors
- A report on the purge of 1,000 listings before Airbnb released its own data
- Recent work / article on impact of Airbnb in NYC from anti-Airbnb group Share Better:
- Airbnb has been removing listings in light of Cuomo's upcoming decision on the multiple dwellings advertisement law
- Airbnb reportedly accounts for ~10% of available rentals, according to the same Share Better report?
- Working paper on racial discrimination among hosts
- The Airbnb blog
- Promoter score (would you recommend to friend?)
- Impact Airbnb has during peak demand
- http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/analyze-nyc-housing-market-through-airbnb
- Mapping the sharing economy
- Report from NY State Attorney General
- 2015 housing report
- Visual search tool (coded in Shiny)
- Every location is above average
- How can we use average value rating, average location rating, etc. in the data?
- Only have availability, don't know if this is because people are there or it was taken off of market