Matt Mastin

BnBalyze, a collaboration project with four Data Scientists and seven Web Developers, utilizes data from 22,522 AirBnB listings in Berlin from November 2018 to predict an optimal price. Our hypothetical customer owns several properties; some are priced too low, leaving extra revenue on the table, and some are priced too... [Read More]

Better Reads, a book recommendation website based on a natural language processing model powered by spaCy and Elastic Beanstalk, was a collaborative project with three other data scientists and six web developers. Unfortunately, we pulled the plug on the AWS-hosted backend due to mounting costs, but the website is still... [Read More]

[Original post on Medium] Physical book sales are once again increasing after years of decline amidst disillusionment with social media and mobile-centered lives. While Twitter APIs, Facebook Analytics, and Google offer an endless torrent of data, the book market also offers insights into the Zeitgeist. [Read More]