New research method predicts success, failure of D.C. restaurants
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Using a database of 130,000 Yelp reviews of restaurants in Washington, D.C., two professors and a graduate student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business have identified a method that allows software to "read" the content of those reviews—and predict which restaurants will close.