🚧 Under Construction
This lab is coming soon
Lab 6 is still being built. When it's ready, you'll work through a simplified version of Airbnb's Smart Pricing system using Python in Google Colab — no prior coding experience required.
What you'll build when it's ready
- Simulate a dataset of bookings with realistic lead time patterns
- Visualize a lead time distribution for a high-demand vs. last-minute market
- Cluster similar listings into demand aggregations
- Fit a simple hybrid model (ML + structural form) to predict prices
- Compare your hybrid predictions to a pure ML baseline
In the meantime, go read the full Chapter 6 case study — it covers everything the lab will ask you to build, including the business context that makes the technical work make sense.