Predicting Yelp Ratings for Restaurants

I created a function to retrieve data from the Yelp API and used it to retrieve data about restaurants for several cities in the US. I then cleaned this data and prepared it for use in a Linear Regression model. My model was able to predict Yelp ratings with an average error of about 1/2 stars.

Pitchfork Over the Years

I used Matplotlib to produce several visualizations of long term trends for the ratings on the online music magazine Pitchfork. I also used SQL to produce summary statistics about the data. In this project, I found that Pitchfork's scores have been rising since 2009 as a result of a decline in...