Jeffrey Breen just gave a talk entitled “Tapping the Data Deluge with R” to theBoston Predictive Analytics Meetup. He suggests there are two types of data in this world
Data you have, and
Data you don’t have…yet.
In the talk Jeffrey provided a nice overview of several methods for importing data into R, including:
Reading CSV files
Reading XLS files
Yelp is a website on which people review local businesses. In their own words, Yelp describes themselves as an “online urban city guide that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the informed opinions of a vibrant and active community of locals in the know.”
Earlier this year, Yelp released a subset of their data to be used for academic use. The dataset includes business data (e.
