Pet analytics: Predicting adoption speed of pets from their online profiles

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Amir Hassan Zadeh, Kara Combs, Brandon Burkey, Jordan Dop, Kevin Duffy, Nasim Nosoudi

Published: 2022, Last Modified: 03 Feb 2025Expert Syst. Appl. 2022EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Data mining algorithms are explored to predict the adoption speed of pets.•Several textual and non-textual-based models are proposed and evaluated.•Several attributes are identified in association with a pet’s length of stay in a shelter.•Regression and gradient boosting models benefit most from textual features.