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Competition - predict hotel cancellation

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They have provided you with their bookings data in a file called hotel_bookings.csv, which contains the following:

Column	Description
`Booking_ID`	Unique identifier of the booking.
`no_of_adults`	The number of adults.
`no_of_children`	The number of children.
`no_of_weekend_nights`	Number of weekend nights (Saturday or Sunday).
`no_of_week_nights`	Number of week nights (Monday to Friday).
`type_of_meal_plan`	Type of meal plan included in the booking.
`required_car_parking_space`	Whether a car parking space is required.
`room_type_reserved`	The type of room reserved.
`lead_time`	Number of days before the arrival date the booking was made.
`arrival_year`	Year of arrival.
`arrival_month`	Month of arrival.
`arrival_date`	Date of the month for arrival.
`market_segment_type`	How the booking was made.
`repeated_guest`	Whether the guest has previously stayed at the hotel.
`no_of_previous_cancellations`	Number of previous cancellations.
`no_of_previous_bookings_not_canceled`	Number of previous bookings that were canceled.
`avg_price_per_room`	Average price per day of the booking.
`no_of_special_requests`	Count of special requests made as part of the booking.
`booking_status`	Whether the booking was cancelled or not.

import pandas as pd
hotels = pd.read_csv("data/hotel_bookings.csv")
hotels

Use your skills to produce recommendations for the hotel on what factors affect whether customers cancel their booking.

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CATEGORY	WEIGHTING	DETAILS
Recommendations	35%	Clarity of recommendations - how clear and well presented the recommendation is. Quality of recommendations - are appropriate analytical techniques used & are the conclusions valid? Number of relevant insights found for the target audience.
Storytelling	35%	How well the data and insights are connected to the recommendation. How the narrative and whole report connects together. Balancing making the report in-depth enough but also concise.
Visualizations	20%	Appropriateness of visualization used. Clarity of insight from visualization.
Votes	10%	Up voting - most upvoted entries get the most points.

Rename your workspace to make it descriptive of your work. N.B. you should leave the notebook name as notebook.ipynb.
Remove redundant cells like the judging criteria, so the workbook is focused on your work.
Check that all the cells run without error.

hotels.info()