1. Supervisor: Erez Lotan, Orbitz World Wide Students: Roman Gurevitch & Amit Yaffe, CS, Technion

2. * Orbitz collects enormous amounts of data about travel habits of customers (anonymously). * We want to expose this data in an accessible and digested way to Orbitz’s customers so they can better plan their upcoming trip.

3. * Develop visualization tool to provide users insights about where people tend to go to during vacations. * Create a tool which scores a location according to the reservation history in the area to be used in search results rating.

4. * Create Google maps interface with a heat-map layer. * Harvest historical reservation data and convert to entries for the heat-map layer. * Create user control elements. * Discover the right algorithm to be used with the score per location tool. * Development in accordance with Agile methodology.

5. * Product - Client side consisting of the map and user controls and the server side consisting of the SQL server and Java server. * In addition– A score per location tool to assist in the scoring of search results. * Acquired knowledge in new programing environments (GWT, SQL, Client/Server) and methods (Agile/Scrum)

6. * Study new development technologies and methods. * Combine Client - Server-DB in a single project * Performance - create a fluid, dynamic heat map with large DB. * Location score – find the appropriate method to compute location score quickly and accurately.

7. * Google Maps Heat Map API was an adequate tool but not strong enough for those amounts of data. * The use of new technologies albeit common ones, proved time consuming. * The work with the industry supervisor proved to be productive and beneficial.