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Luxury Restaurants Bucharest - A sentiment analysis before and in pandemic outbreakLuxury Restaurants Bucharest - A sentiment analysis before and in pandemic outbreak
This analysis compares the determinants of guest experience at the top 5 score luxury restaurants in Bucharest Romania before and during the pandemic-COVID-19.In particular, 1048 reviews were posted before the pandemic outbreak and 58 reviews were posted during the pandemic.
The data was collected using web scrapping techniques on the TripAdvisor website for the following restaurants: Kaiamo, Casa di David, L'Atelier, The Artist and Relais & Chateaux Le Bistrot Francais.
Comparative analysis of different univariate forecasting methods
Unemployment has risen as the economy has shrunk. The coronavirus crisis has affected many sectors in Romania, some companies diminishing or even ceasing their activity. Making forecasts of the unemployment rate has a fundamental impact and importance on future social policy strategies.
The aim of the tutorial is to comparatively analyze the forecast performances of different univariate time series methods with the purpose of providing future predictions of unemployment rate. In order to do that several forecasting models (SARIMA, Holt Winters, ETS, NNAR) have been applied and their forecast performances have been evaluated on both the in-sample data covering the period January 2000-December 2017 used for the model identification and estimation and the out of sample data covering the last three years, 2018-2020. The forecast of unemployment rate relies on the next two years, 2021-2022.