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Yelp University Dataset

48 points by adi92 15y ago

PaulHoule 15y ago
Why not make it available to everybody? There's a lot of data mining talent in academia, but there's also a lot of us in the "real world" who follow what they do closely and add our own special twists because we've been doing data analysis for decades rather than teaching about it for decades. Why keep the data under wraps? I can't see the data being all that valuable to Yelp's competitors, unless somebody wants to make a niche out of have stale data about university towns.
- earl 15y ago
  If I had to guess, the same guys who screwed over netflix, cost them $10M, then posted the smarmy bullshit below: http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/ http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/ In particular, note this clause from yelp's agreement: "5. Restrictions You agree that you will not, and will not encourage, assist, or enable others to: A. display, perform, or distribute any of the Data, or use the Data to update or create Your own business listing information; B. Use the data in any manner or for any purpose that may violate any law or regulation, or any right of any person including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy and/or rights of personality, or which otherwise may be harmful (in Yelp's sole discretion) to Yelp, its providers, its suppliers, end users of this website, or Your end users;" http://www.yelp.com/html/pdf/Dataset_Agreement.pdf http://www.yelp.com/html/pdf/Dataset_Agreement.pdf That said, reading the dataset agreement, I'm not sure I'd care to participate even if I could. edited for formatting
- ben1040 15y ago
  It might not be valuable to competitors, but I wonder if this data set would be useful for someone trying to write fake reviews that get past their filtering mechanisms.
- disgruntledphd2 15y ago
  Even making it available to institutions outside the US would be a start. I'm actually doing some work on ratings in the UK at the moment, and this dataset would have been really useful to test some theories I've been developing. I agree totally on making it available to anyone who is willing to sign up to the terms and conditions. I wonder why they didn't use Kaggle?
rorrr 15y ago
> you'll need to be associated with an academic institution to qualify for access
andre 15y ago
is this the same dataset: http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/datasets/Yelp http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/datasets/Yelp
- AdamTReineke 15y ago
  Doesn't look like it.
- truncs 15y ago
  I think the dataset you mentioned only contains the yelp social graph ie it doesn't have the reviews and stuff.

48 points by adi92 15y ago

Why not make it available to everybody? There's a lot of data mining talent in academia, but there's also a lot of us in the "real world" who follow what they do closely and add our own special twists because we've been doing data analysis for decades rather than teaching about it for decades. Why keep the data under wraps? I can't see the data being all that valuable to Yelp's competitors, unless somebody wants to make a niche out of have stale data about university towns.

earl 15y ago
If I had to guess, the same guys who screwed over netflix, cost them $10M, then posted the smarmy bullshit below: http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/ http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/ In particular, note this clause from yelp's agreement: "5. Restrictions You agree that you will not, and will not encourage, assist, or enable others to: A. display, perform, or distribute any of the Data, or use the Data to update or create Your own business listing information; B. Use the data in any manner or for any purpose that may violate any law or regulation, or any right of any person including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy and/or rights of personality, or which otherwise may be harmful (in Yelp's sole discretion) to Yelp, its providers, its suppliers, end users of this website, or Your end users;" http://www.yelp.com/html/pdf/Dataset_Agreement.pdf http://www.yelp.com/html/pdf/Dataset_Agreement.pdf That said, reading the dataset agreement, I'm not sure I'd care to participate even if I could. edited for formatting
ben1040 15y ago
It might not be valuable to competitors, but I wonder if this data set would be useful for someone trying to write fake reviews that get past their filtering mechanisms.
disgruntledphd2 15y ago
Even making it available to institutions outside the US would be a start. I'm actually doing some work on ratings in the UK at the moment, and this dataset would have been really useful to test some theories I've been developing. I agree totally on making it available to anyone who is willing to sign up to the terms and conditions. I wonder why they didn't use Kaggle?

rorrr 15y ago

> you'll need to be associated with an academic institution to qualify for access

andre 15y ago

is this the same dataset: http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/datasets/Yelp http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/datasets/Yelp

AdamTReineke 15y ago
Doesn't look like it.
truncs 15y ago
I think the dataset you mentioned only contains the yelp social graph ie it doesn't have the reviews and stuff.