Discovering the pulse of Boston through temporal food inspection data.

I am working with the food inspections database, which has two files with records of every food inspection conducted by the city of Boston between 2010 and 2020, along with yelp data for eating establishments in Boston. For this week, I wanted to explore the Records file in a little more depth, beginning with the … More Discovering the pulse of Boston through temporal food inspection data.

Exploring and Visualizing Yelp and Food Inspection Trends in Boston

Julia Vasta September 30, 2020 Introduction to the Yelp Food Inspection Dataset This week I will be digging into the food inspection dataset that incorporates information about restaurants scraped from Yelp. This dataset compiles violation counts per restaurant, rather than listing each individual inspection and its outcome for each restaurant. This makes it easier to … More Exploring and Visualizing Yelp and Food Inspection Trends in Boston

Telling a Data Story for Boston Through Food Inspection and Yelp Data

Introduction The two files, based on running the STR function and reading through the accompannying PDF file, are datasets that contain data focused on health inspections for food establishments located in the city of Boston. The larger file titled ‘Food.Inspections.Records’ contains the individual details of every inspection conducted at the establishments, with a total of … More Telling a Data Story for Boston Through Food Inspection and Yelp Data