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Data Highlights: An in-depth review of the Origin and Destination Survey (DB1B)

The Airline Origin and Destination Survey dataset, also known as DB1B, is a 10% random sample of airline tickets data collected by the Office of Airline Information of the Bureau of Transportation and Statistics. DB1B was created specifically to determine patterns for air traffic, air carrier market shares, and passenger flows. Here we provide some insightful analysis based on this dataset. All the content will be presented in the form of a Jupyter Notebook. You can find the notebook here.

Farelogix and Florida International University Establish Airline Data Analytics and Decision Sciences Program

Farelogix and Florida International University (FIU) today announced the formation of the new Data Science for Airlines Informatics (DSAI) program, an advanced training program focused on airline data analytics and decision sciences. Housed at FIU as part of the university’s School of Computing and Information Sciences, the program will be dedicated to the study and implementation of advanced predictive analytics for the airline industry, using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Graduate students will work collaboratively with the Farelogix data and analytics team to develop new data models for optimizing airline revenue management and generating dynamic offers. The program will open in May 2018.

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