Predicting Airbnb Listing Prices with Scikit-Learn and Apache Spark

One of the most useful things to do with machine learning is inform assumptions about customer behaviors. This has a wide variety of applications: everything from helping customers make superior choices (and often, more profitable ones), making them contagiously happy about your business, and building loyalty over time. Increasingly, it's not enough to simply let your customers pick and choose from the products and services options offered. Customers expect intelligent recommendations and for you to chart courses of action with minimal room for ambiguity or misinterpretation. Sounds straightforward enough.. how do you actually make it happen?