Findings: Photos in international AirBNB listings are starting to have more in common as globalization homogenizes the wold. However, variation between listings in neighborhoods is rising.

Method: 500,000 images downloaded from AirBNB were rated by Mechanical Turk participants.

Good For: If you want to learn how citizens of different locales decorate their homes differently, or to identify favorable interiors to global customers. Useful for AirBNB hosts or hotel marketers seeking a competitive advantage.

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Rahimi S,  Liu X and Andris C (2016) Hidden Style in the City: An Analysis of Geolocated Airbnb Rental Images in Ten Major Cities.  Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (UrbanGIS ’16). Oct 31, Burlingame, CA.