Friday, September 2, 2011

Vacation Sentiment

Pamela and I are planning a vacation for this fall and we've narrowed it down to two locations; Aruba or Jamaica.  We've looked at flights and resorts for both places and they both look awesome and we can't decide.  So I figured since I turn to Google for so many other answers, why not try it out to help us decide on our vacation.

The numbers are based on the amount of Google search results yielded from an entry in the form of (Location) "(Adjective) vacation".  I figured this would give me a general idea for the overall portion of people that were satisfied or not satisfied with their trip to either location.  I plotted the results against each other for easier comparison in terms of percentages. 

Positive Sentiment

Negative Sentiment

Results:
1)  Jamaica returned more hits for both the positive and negative searches.  
2)  The ratio for the positive searches was about 65% for Jamaica and 35% for Aruba.  The negative searches came out to around 80% for Jamaica and 20% for Aruba. 

Conclusions:
Jamaica returned more results for all searches, this is most likely due to Jamaica being both larger in size and possibly a more common vacation destination.  However, Aruba had a higher percentage against Jamaica for positive sentiment than it did for negative sentiment.  This tells me that across all of the Google results, a higher percentage of people were satisfied with their trips to Aruba than with their trips to Jamaica.  I realize there are flaws with this process and by no means is this conclusive evidence that Aruba would be a better destination.  This all just comes down to one more data point for us to use in making our vacation decision. 

1 comment:

  1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....shut your mouth. Only the Hesselbachers (big shout out to Matt) would depict vacation decisions into bar graphs! Classic.

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