Week 7 Response

Experiment: Correlation Between Stars and Attire in Yelp Reviews

For Correlation Between Stars and Attire in Yelp Reviews, I took a dataset from Kaggle containing data from over 10,000 Yelp reviews. For the purpose of this experiment, I reduced the sample size to 1,000. My goal was to see if there were any differences between the number of stars given to restaurants that had casual attire versus formal or dressy attire. This was a little difficult since my data set did not actually contain that many reviews for restaurants for formal/dressy attire, but was a good exercise and could be expanded for the final project.

Ian Hatcher’s openingsources.com is an interesting collaboration in that our thoughts and contributions are anonymous, but we can combine it all together and add on to others’ previous contributions. I didn’t realize it was that it was a live edit that anyone who accesses the service could see. When I visited the site again later on, I saw random letters and words, possibly from people from DLA testing out the piece. In the second scene of Loss of Grasp, I could see the meaning of the caption in the piece immediately. It has quite a few metaphors within it that intertwine together.