Why do you attend a public event?

Factors might be various. Event date, location, businesses close-by and transportation accessibility are all possible key factors.

This analysis provides valuable insights into understanding people’s decision-making process and day-to-day scheduling. It is especially useful for any hosts to better market their events and attract as many people as possible with shared interests.

According to the Bizzabo Blog, 41% marketers believe that “events are the most effective marketing channel over digital advertising, email marketing and content marketing.” Event-directed marketing strategies increased by 32% since 2017.

There are plenty of traditional statistical analysis conducted on event marketing and management, but little is done through comprehensive machine learning. Our predictive approach captures a wide range of variables by conducting geospatial analysis, predictive modeling and text analysis through the combination of three very different data sets. It adds valuable business strategies to the current event marketing and management industry.

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Dataset

6,544 events in New York State are selected as target.

To test these hypotheses, we use Yelp Events data as the primary source, and supplement it with Yelp Businesses data and Here Technologies public transportation data.

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Introduction

Motivation

event promotion emails every day

Guess

Number of businesses, accessibility by public transportation, cost, etc.

Who cares

event planners/hosts, marketing industry

Value

Insight in understanding people’s decision-making process and day-to-day scheduling.

Value

Most effective marketing channel in upward trend (Bizzabo Blog).

Value

More than statistical analysis: a holistic data science approach (geospatial analysis, predictive modeling, text analysis, etc.)

Analysis

Different techniques are used to analyze this problem.

Unsupervised: Association Rules, Clustering, Topic Modeling
Supervised: Classification and Regression
Statistical Approach: Hypothesis Testing

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Github Source Code

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