A data-backed approach for securing tickets to see Rome’s Colosseum

The goal of this project was to create a strategy that optimizes the likelihood of obtaining Colosseum tickets from the official website (<a href="https://ecm.coopculture.it/index.php?lang=en" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Coopculture</a>). This strategy will allow you to avoid the high fees charged by third-party resellers who use bots to purchase the majority of tickets within seconds of their release. To this effect, I wrote a computer program using Python and Selenium to track the ticket availability for entry into the Colosseum from the official website. Ticket availability was queried for 14 consecutive days in intervals between 3 seconds and one minute. The main findings of this work show that tickets are released on a rolling basis exactly 30 days, 7 days, and 1 day before the timed ticket entry. We find that the initial release of tickets sells out the fastest, and tickets released 7 days and 1 day before the entry time are available for longer. <a href="https://nmfasano5.medium.com/a-data-backed-approach-for-securing-tickets-to-see-romes-colosseum-edefdfa307ac">Website</a>