Homestay analytics dashboard

Sainan, Nurul Fadhilah (2017) Homestay analytics dashboard. Project Report. Melaka, Malaysia, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Information regarding homestays on Mudah.my website needs to be gathered, measured, analysed and reported. It is to make it possible for the tourism department and city council to understand the current situation for tourism purpose and planning. Analytical dashboard is a supporting tool that can measures and visualizes homestays information that is obtained from Mudah.my website. It works by tracking the web marketplace data and mining massive amount of data to find meaning. Using this data, the analytical engine can visualizes the results so user can summarizes it at a glance. There are several questions arise when developing the system which are how to retrieve data from the website, how to store the information retrieved and what is the method to visualize the information obtained. This project consists of web crawler engine and data visualization that can retrieve advertisement information of homestays in Malaysia from Mudah.my website and visualize the data for analytical purposes. This project is developed using following steps; development of web crawler, data collection and extraction, repository development, building a platform to visualize data and implementation, validation and recommendation of project. At the end, this project develop a set of graphical presentation of homestays advertisement information. With the availability of this information, user can better monitor and stay updated with homestays information in just one platform and plan towards increasing the number of tourists visiting Malaysia that will stay at homestays during their visit and ultimately improve Malaysia tourism ranking. Therefore, this dashboard is a powerful tool for tourism department and city council to assist them for decision making and promoting.

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