Is Your Business Doomed?

A project that performs analysis on Yelp ratings to compare business categories across several metropolitan areas.

• Business success/failure
• Area competition
• Potential for future businesses based on category and area.

Results located in notebooks/final

This readme details the steps needed to run all of the notebooks.

Environments

Both environments in this project are detailed in the folder "anaconda environments"

1) /notebooks/prep, /notebooks/analysis, /notebooks/final/RQ1, /notebooks/final/RQ2

All of these notebooks use the environment described in spec-all.txt

2) notebooks/final/RQ3

This notebook uses Basemap which must must be run using Python 2.

The enviroment in described in spec-basemap.txt

This notebook will produce an error if run in Python 3.

How to run notebooks

Step 1: /notebooks/prep

Notebooks are labeled in the order to be run; 100, 200, 300, 400

Step 2: /notebooks/analysis

Notebooks are labeled in the order to be run; 100, 200, 201, 300, 301, 400, 401

Step 3: /notebooks/final

Order to be run; RQ1 Final, RQ2 Final

Step 4: /notebooks/final/RQ3 Final

Change Environment to spec-basemap

Run notebook. The first cell can be changed to personalise the map.

Application used

• Basemap - Map making software

In case of error:

• The map uses a background called 'ESRI_Streetview' that sometimes can fail if the website hosting it goes down. This will produce '500 Server Error' when the notebook is run. An alternative background is provided in the comments in the makeMap() function.