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Challenge B from Booking.com

Booking.com Challenge: Solo Women Traveler Network

Challenge Summary

Booking.com is committed to becoming more women-friendly and ensuring that solo women travelers have safe, enjoyable, and empowering travel experiences. We invite you to participate in the “Solo Women Traveler Network” hackathon, where your task will be to leverage your programming skills to build, analyze, and enhance networks (graphs) related to solo women travelers.

Objective

Develop a tool, application, or comprehensive presentation that uses graph-based data analysis to provide meaningful insights into various aspects of solo women travelers’ experiences. Participants can choose to build new networks (graphs) from the provided data, analyze existing networks, or enhance and add to existing networks. Your solution can focus on any aspect that enhances the travel experience for solo women, such as travel patterns, accommodation preferences, popular destinations, social interactions, or any other relevant factors.

Tools and Technologies (recommended, not required)

• NetworkX or other graph libraries: For creating and analyzing graphs.

• Visualization tools: Such as D3.js, Gephi, or similar, to visualize the network data.

• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, or any language suitable for data analysis and visualization.

Given (All Generated/Simulated):

• Accommodation Reviews and Ratings: Including safety scores and whether accommodations are women-only.

• Travel Itineraries and Routes: Detailed travel patterns of solo women travelers.

• Safety Ratings of Destinations: Based on historical data of reported incidents.

• User Profiles: Anonymized profiles highlighting travel preferences and behaviors.

• Popular Destinations and Activities: Data on destinations and activities favored by solo women travelers.

• Transportation Data: Information on transportation options, including safety scores.

• Social Interactions Network: Data on social interactions among solo women travelers.

Expected Deliverables

• Functional Prototype or Tool: A working version of the tool/application or a detailed presentation summarizing the analysis.

• Graph Data Integration: Demonstrate how travel and safety data is incorporated into the graph analysis.

• User Interface (if applicable): An easy-to-use interface that allows interaction with the graph data, such as selecting routes, viewing accommodation preferences, or analyzing social networks.

• Presentation: A comprehensive demo or report including explanations of methodologies used, insights gained, and recommendations for improving solo women travelers’ experiences.

Judging Criteria

• Innovation and Originality: Creativity in how graph-based data is utilized to support solo women travelers.

• Impact on Women’s Travel Experience: Effectiveness of the tool/application in enhancing the safety and/or enjoyment of solo women travelers.

• Quality of Implementation: Robustness, usability, and professionalism of the software or presentation.

• Use of Technology: Effective use of graph libraries and visualization tools.

Suggested Timeline

• Planning (1 Hour): Define the project scope and plan the features to be implemented.

• Setup (1 Hour): Prepare the development environment and ensure all technologies are properly integrated.

• Development (8 Hours): Code the main functionalities, focusing on graph data integration and visualization.

• Testing and Refinement (1 Hour): Test the tool/application, refine features, and prepare for the presentation.

• Make Presentation (1 hr): Prepare to demonstrate the tool/application or present the findings, highlighting how it works, its features, and the benefits it offers.