Hotel Booking Demand Prediction

[siddhant4ds]

Pull Request for ML-Crate 💡

Issue Title: Hotel Booking Demand Prediction

• Info about the related issue (Aim of the project) : Predicting cancellation status using booking data to estimate demand for hotel rooms.
• Name: Siddhant Tiwari
• Email ID for further communication: [email protected]
• GitHub ID: siddhant4ds
• Identify yourself: N/A (Issue assigned during SSOC-3)

Closes: #665

Describe the add-ons or changes you've made 📃

1. Exploratory data analysis for the target dataset.
2. Feature engineering using discretizing, target-encoding and re-categorizing.
3. Feature selection using statistical tests and model-based feature-importances.
4. Trained a variety of models to ensure different representations are learned.
5. Ensembled the models using different averaging configurations.
6. Weighted-averaging performed better than all the individual models.

Type of change ☑️

What sort of change have you made:

• [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

How Has This Been Tested? ⚙️

• Dependencies tested by running project on both local and cloud environment.
• Reproducibility of experiments ensured by fixing seeds and tested over multiple runs.

Checklist: ☑️

• [x] My code follows the guidelines of this project.
• [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code.
• [x] I have commented my code, particularly wherever it was hard to understand.
• [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation.
• [x] My changes generate no new warnings.
• [x] I have added things that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works.
• [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules.