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CERTIFICATE

Certified that the project report entitled “Flight Price Prediction” submitted

by Kishan Kumar (1900820100061) is his own work and has been carried out

under our supervision. It is recommended that the candidates may now be

evaluated for their project work by the university.

Dr. Neelaksh Sheel

Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

MIT, Moradabad

Ms. Prachi Agarwal

Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

DATE: MIT, Moradabad

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CERTIFICATE
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ABSTRACT

With the advent of the aviation travel industry, a large number of data mining

technologies have been developed to increase profits for airlines in the past two

decades. The implementation of the digital optimization strategy leads to price

discrimination, for example, similar seats on the same flight are purchased at

different prices, depending on the time of purchase, the supplier, and so on.

Price fluctuations make the prediction of ticket prices have application value.

In this paper, Random Forest algorithm is proposed to predict the price of an

air ticket. The experimental results show that the model is more reliable by

comparing the forecasting results with the actual results of each price model.

The model is helpful for passengers to buy tickets and to save money.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I had a great experience working on this project and I got to learn a plethora of

new skills through this project. However, it would not have been possible

without the kind support and help of many individuals. I would like to extend

my sincere thanks to all of them. I am highly indebted to the teachers and

especially Dr. Neelaksh Sheel, Ms. Prachi Agarwal, and our HOD Dr. Manish

Gupta as well as our Director Dr. Rohit Garg for their guidance and constant

supervision as well as providing necessary information regarding the project

and also for their support in completing the project. I would like to express my

gratitude towards our parents and friends for their kind cooperation and

encouragement which helped me in the completion of the project.

Kishan Kumar

(1900820100061)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Content Page No.

Abstract iv
Table Of Contents vi
List Of Figures vii
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 8
1.1 Overview 8
1.2 Project review 8
1.3 Objectives 9
CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 10
CHAPTER 3. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN 12
3.1 Overview 12
CHAPTER 4. METHODOLOGY 13
4.1 Data extraction 13
4.2 Data Pre-processing 13
4.3 Visualization (EDA) 14
4.4 Feature selection 14
4.5 Model selection 14
4.6 Implementation 15
CHAPTER 5. CODING AND TESTING 16
5.1 Data Pre-processing 16
5.2 Data splitting 18
5.3 Feature selection 19
5.4 Modelling 21
5.5 Random Forest regressor 23
CHAPTER 6. RESULT AND DISCUSSION 25
CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION 26
CHAPTER 8. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT 27
REFERENCES 28
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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO. FIGURE TITLE PAGE NO

2.1 Literature review 11
3.1 Workflow 12
5.1 Reading and displaying data 16
5.2 EDA 17
5.3 Splitting data 18
5.4 Feature selection 19
5.5 Pearson correlation of features 20
5.6 Modelling 22
5.7 Random Forest algorithm 23
5.8 Final outcome 24