Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2014.
From the webpage:
Yelp is proud to introduce a deep dataset for research-minded academics from our wealth of data. If you’ve used our Academic Dataset and want something richer to train your models on and use in publications, this is it. Tired of using the same standard datasets? Want some real-world relevance in your research project? This data is for you!
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Yelp is bringing you a generous sample of our data from the greater Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area including:
- 11,537 businesses
- 8,282 checkin sets
- 43,873 users
- 229,907 reviews
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Awards
If you are a student and come up with an appealing project, you’ll have the opportunity to win one of ten Yelp Dataset Challenge awards for $5,000. Yes, that’s $5,000 for showing us how you use our data in insightful, unique, and compelling ways.
Additionally, if you publish a research paper about your winning research in a peer-reviewed academic journal, then you’ll be awarded an additional $1,000 as recognition of your publication. If you are published, Yelp will also contribute up to $500 to travel expenses to present your research using our data at an academic or industry conference.
If you are a student, see the Yelp webpage for more details. If you are not a student, pass this along to someone who is.
Yes, this is dataset mentioned in How-to: Index and Search Data with Hue’s Search App.