Restaurants’ Rating Prediction Using Yelp Dataset

Every business wants to know whether it can succeed in the future. For restaurants, Yelp's rating is one of the most important indicators. It can not only reveal the quality and service of restaurants but also helps to attract more customers. The restaurants' rating of 2019 is predicted by using collected information of 2018. Both non-text features and text features are applied to provide suggestions to restaurants on yelp, aiming to work on a user-based analysis. Five models are created respectively from five machine learning methods which include regression models, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, and Neural Network. The best accuracy is 82.50%.