Predicting Yelp Ratings Using User Friendship Network Information
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In this project, we attempt to predict the rating a user will give to a restaurant listed on Yelp using Yelp’s Challenge Dataset. Being able to predict the rating a user assigns to a restaurant is helpful when trying to build better recommendation systems on Yelp. We approach the problem from a social network analysis perspective by incorporating Yelp user-user friendship networks in our predictions, and we attempt to test if the additional network information enhances the accuracy of the rating predictions.
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