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Best location to open a restaurant

Narrative

Find the best location to open a restaurant in the city of Boston based on the location’s nearby restaurants, crime rate, parking spaces and neighborhood’s income. Parking spaces is an important factor for people to consider whether to go to a restaurant. Crime rate indicates the safety of the location. neighborhood’s income indicates the possibility of people going to eat out in the neighborhood. Number of restaurants indicate intensity of competition.

dataset:

  1. parking meters in Boston https://data.boston.gov/dataset/parking-meters
  2. neighborhood in Boston https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-neighborhoods
  3. income in Boston http://datamechanics.io/data/wenjun/censusincomedata.json
  4. yelp dataset https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v3/business_search
  5. crime rate in boston https://data.boston.gov/dataset/crime-incident-reports-august-2015-to-date-source-new-system

transformation:

  1. find 100 means in parking meters
  2. number of crime within certain distance of location of that 100 means
  3. number of restaurants within certain distance of location of that 100 means

auth.json

Use yelp api:https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v3/ Please place the auth.json file in your folder{ "yelp": { "CLIENT_ID" : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "CLIENT_SECRET" : "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" }

}

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