COMS 4995: Empirical Methods of Data Science, Professor Michelle Levine
This contains the code used to process existing data and perform natural language processing techniques on user reviews from the Yelp Academic Dataset.
CityDiversity: Analyzes how perceptions of ethnic restaurants differ in extremely diverse areas of the country (Philadelphia, Tampa) versus less diverse metropolitans (New Orleans, Santa Barbara, Indianapolis) through a sentiment analysis and topic modeling of reviews across major ethcnic restaurants in both cities.
COVID19Timeline: Analyzes how perceptions of Asian American restuarants declined after the COVID-19 pandemic through a sentiment analysis and topic modeling of reviews from before and after 2019.
Ruth Lee, Youngseo Lee, Maya Srikanth, Patrick Tong