Effective pricing strategies can help any company to efficiently sell its products in a competitive market and making profit. In the automotive sector, pricing analytics play an essential role for both companies and individuals to assess the market price of a vehicle before putting it on sale or buying it. Revenues continue to fall at craigslist. Established meaningful relationships between car price and its attributes and made prediction models, useful to sellers, online pricing services and buyers. Craigslist oracle predicting the rise and fall of craigslist prices. This platform, a site for classified ads, has fundamentally transformed the way people interact within their local areas. Beginning as a straightforward email list in san francisco, craigslist has evolved into a global phenomenon, bringing together millions of users daily. I made an app that takes data scraped from craigslist and utilizes a random forest model to generate price predictions! I deployed an app via plotly dash onto heroku to expose the prediction model endpoint. Craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, services, local community, and events The aim of the project is to analyze the various charateristics that influence the price of a used car listed on craigslist. Based on the results of the analysis, to build a model to predict the prices of used cars given the various charateristics. The notebook contains detialed steps for the same. In many ways, the web has moved on from craigslist. And yet, it persists, continuing to quietly generate hundreds of millions in revenue each year through the labor of roughly 30 employees and. While it began as a simple email list for local events, its foray into the job market has been marked by innovation, adaptability, and battles with emerging tech giants. Let’s delve into craigslist’s journey through the lens of job listings and human resources.
