Hotels.ng Hackathon - Programming

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Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 9:41am On Aug 01, 2015*

The Hotels.ng Machine Learning Hackathon

The idea behind the hackathon is simple: all hotel booking websites around the world have incidents of cancelled hotel bookings. Some users are more likely to cancel their bookings than others, depending on several factors/conditions. For example, a person who books and pays is less likely to cancel his booking compared to someone who intends to pay on arrival. A person who books 5 different hotels in different states on the same day is likely to cancel at least 4 of those reservations. Or maybe not - because he's probably booking for other people.

It is possible to write a machine learning algorithm that takes data from past bookings and makes a decision based off the characteristics of the user to decide if the person is going to cancel his booking or not.

Hotels.ng will provide participants of the hackathon a dataset of 5000 pieces of dummy data against which a machine learning (or any other) algorithm can be coded. The end-goal of your algorithm would be, quite simply, to predict booking cancellations.

At the end of the process, each algorithm will be run against the full Hotels.ng dataset (on www.hotels.ng ) to see whose algorithm was the best predictor of cancellations.

The winner will get a prize.

The hackathon will take place at the Hotels.ng office located at No. 3 Birrell Avenue, Sabo, Yaba (right beside the Chief Magistrate Court). It starts at 9am, and will probably end shortly after lunch.

Everyone is welcome - but since this is an advanced coding problem, only software developers will be able to participate (no project managers or designers needed on this one).

Solo developers and/or team mates are invited to participate. Light refreshments will be provided.

Source : http://www.eventbrite.com

cc dhtml18, kudaisi, FincoApps, thewebcraft, ToyinDipo, MisterNobody, crazymadman, Seun, romme2u, proxy20, JackOfAllTrades, S4mson, Enmacmedia

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by spikesC(m): 10:12am On Aug 01, 2015*

Bulala. This should be fun

Why am I not seeing those 'contact me on my signature now' developers undecided

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Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 10:24am On Aug 01, 2015

spikesC:
Bulala. This should be fun

Why are my not seeing those 'contact me on signature now' developers

Boss, make them no vex for you o...

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by fattbabakay(m): 11:46am On Aug 01, 2015

Nice

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by josieboy55(m): 5:16pm On Aug 01, 2015

spikesC:
Bulala. This should be fun

Why are my not seeing those 'contact me on signature now' developers

LOL

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by bot101(m): 10:30pm On Aug 01, 2015

Now here comes a real challenge!!.But if the factors given above are the only ones to be considered, I then do not think it is much of a challenge.

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by CodeHouse: 11:15pm On Aug 01, 2015

Mscheeeeeew

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by Olucheye(m): 1:35am On Aug 02, 2015*

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 8:57am On Aug 02, 2015

[quote author=Olucheye post=36515478][/quote]I'm sorry, the hackathon was yesterday...

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by jetsetgo: 10:17am On Aug 02, 2015

Would haff loff to participate efen if it is to jus assess the different technologies used to achief the task. Me I haff gone python and aff been loffing it all the way. Anyone that cares to know my own tool stack it would haff been Python: nltk, SciPy-NumPy, Pandas.

- I yam putting this hear for people that might be interested in towing this route to have a point to start off from.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: DON'T COME HERE AND TALK ABOUT HOW JAVA IS BETTER THAN C++ AND HOW FORTRAN IS SWEETER THAN IJEBU GARRI, Programming languages are just tools. Get over it.

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by Olucheye(m): 11:58am On Aug 02, 2015

53cur3m0d3:
I'm sorry, the hackathon was yesterday...

Oh... Sad i missed it.
I was hoping to network with tech eggheads with the possibility of working together.

Are you one yourself?

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by sukkot: 10:49pm On Oct 24, 2015

jetsetgo:
Would haff loff to participate efen if it is to jus assess the different technologies used to achief the task. Me I haff gone python and aff been loffing it all the way. Anyone that cares to know my own tool stack it would haff been Python: nltk, SciPy-NumPy, Pandas.

- I yam putting this hear for people that might be interested in towing this route to have a point to start off from.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: DON'T COME HERE AND TALK ABOUT HOW JAVA IS BETTER THAN C++ AND HOW FORTRAN IS SWEETER THAN IJEBU GARRI, Programming languages are just tools. Get over it.

bro, i need you for a project. write me back

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by samlexxy: 6:25am On Oct 25, 2015*

jetsetgo:
Would haff loff to participate efen if it is to jus assess the different technologies used to achief the task. Me I haff gone python and aff been loffing it all the way. Anyone that cares to know my own tool stack it would haff been Python: nltk, SciPy-NumPy, Pandas.

- I yam putting this hear for people that might be interested in towing this route to have a point to start off from.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: DON'T COME HERE AND TALK ABOUT HOW JAVA IS BETTER THAN C++ AND HOW FORTRAN IS SWEETER THAN IJEBU GARRI, Programming languages are just tools. Get over it.

bro i speak python .. tho not too fluently but I think one way or the other we could help each other. if you don't mind dropping your digit

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by whisp3r(m): 6:42pm On Oct 25, 2015

53cur3m0d3:
cc dhtml18, kudaisi, FincoApps, thewebcraft, ToyinDipo, MisterNobody, crazymadman, Seun, romme2u, proxy20, JackOfAllTrades, S4mson, Enmacmedia

Sounds fun.

Count me in

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by whisp3r(m): 6:44pm On Oct 25, 2015

sukkot:
bro, i need you for a project. write me back

Hey, what's up I could help with your project, am in VB.net, c# and web design/development

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by sukkot: 7:45pm On Oct 25, 2015

whisp3r:
Hey, what's up I could help with your project, am in VB.net, c# and web design/development

send me your email

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by whisp3r(m): 8:17pm On Oct 25, 2015

sukkot:
send me your email

Sent

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by sukkot: 8:24pm On Oct 25, 2015

[quote author=whisp3r post=39356102][/quote]you can remove your number and email now if you want. i have emailed you

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 9:30pm On Oct 25, 2015

whisp3r:
Sounds fun.
Count me in

I'm sorry bro. The ship sailed a long time ago

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by whisp3r(m): 9:45pm On Oct 25, 2015*

53cur3m0d3:
I'm sorry bro. The ship sailed a long time ago

abandon ship

Do let me know if another opportunity arise

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by Nobody: 10:11am On Oct 26, 2015

Santa maria! how come i am just seeing this now? I was just wearing my programming jacket, but now guess i shall just wear a strait jacket before i start crawling up walls!

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 2:11pm On Oct 26, 2015

whisp3r:
abandon ship

Do let me know if another opportunity arise

Aii Sir

dhtml18:
Santa maria! how come i am just seeing this now? I was just wearing my programming jacket, but now guess i shall just wear a strait jacket before i start crawling up walls!

Oga Native Doctor, did your Oracle ask you to proceed on break this early? tongue

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by Nobody: 6:37pm On Oct 26, 2015

whisp3r:
abandon ship

Do let me know if another opportunity arise

But remember that the captain must go down with the ship!

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by whisp3r(m): 6:44pm On Oct 26, 2015

dhtml18:
But remember that the captain must go down with the ship!

Sorry, my ship is on auto pilot

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by thewebcraft(m): 9:09pm On Oct 26, 2015

53cur3m0d3:
cc dhtml18, kudaisi, FincoApps, thewebcraft, ToyinDipo, MisterNobody, crazymadman, Seun, romme2u, proxy20, JackOfAllTrades, S4mson, Enmacmedia

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by directonpc(m): 2:05am On Oct 27, 2015

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just give it a chance

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Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by FincoApps(m): 2:07pm On Oct 30, 2015

I'm also surprised o. I just saw it too, ahn ahn since August shocked

dhtml18:
Santa maria! how come i am just seeing this now? I was just wearing my programming jacket, but now guess i shall just wear a strait jacket before i start crawling up walls!

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by Nobody: 7:10pm On Oct 30, 2015

^^^Sad, i am sure between us we would have carried the gold and silver away!

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Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by FincoApps(m): 7:40pm On Oct 30, 2015

dhtml18:
^^^Sad, i am sure between us we would have carried the gold and silver away!

Lol, abi o

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by 53cur3m0d3(op): 11:17pm On Oct 30, 2015

Una just dey make me laugh this night especially Native Doctor HTML. @FincoApps, can I send you a pm?

At the Hackathon, there was the Andela team and the MEST team. Also, individual programmers participated.

Re: Hotels.ng Hackathon by FincoApps(m): 12:03am On Oct 31, 2015

53cur3m0d3:
Una just dey make me laugh this night especially Native Doctor HTML. @FincoApps, can I send you a pm?

At the Hackathon, there was the Andela team and the MEST team. Also, individual programmers participated.

Yea sure.

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