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Yelp Dataset Challenge
- huhtenberg 12y agoIs Yelp still penalizing listed businesses that don't pay them?
- codezero 12y agoDo you have a source on that penalty? What kind of penalty is it, and does it relate to this challenge?
- huhtenberg 12y agoAlong these lines - http://marketingland.com/ftc-discloses-small-business-complaints-yelp-79113 http://marketingland.com/ftc-discloses-small-business-compla... The same from 5 years ago - http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-of-extortion-20/Content?oid=1176635 http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...
- stevejohnson 12y agoI often forget the exact name of the fallacy this type of question embodies, so for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question The common analogue being, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
- ep103 12y agoThat's not a loaded question when the person in question has a history of beating their wife.
- yochaigal 12y agoSo sick of hearing this - what actual evidence do you have? People's reviews get filtered because the user doesn't have human-identifiable data - multiple reviews, friends who use yelp, a picture, recent logins, etc. Find me any business that complains about this extortion, their filtered reviews are 99% from people who've used yelp once and never logged in again. On the other hand, here's a Harvard Business School study debunking this myth: http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/hbs-study-finds-positive-yelp-reviews-lead-to-increased-business http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/hbs-study-finds-positive-...
- asdfologist 12y agoWhat? That article has nothing to do with the subject of the myth.
- yochaigal 12y agoWhoops, wrong link (on my phone, still no excuse). Here is the one I was referring to: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/12/harvard-study-debunks-yelp-extortion-conspiracy-theory-yelp-doesnt-extort.html http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/12/harvard-study-debunks-y... The myth is that businesses which pay yelp do better; thus yelp extorts businesses to pay. The study showed that businesses which pay for yelp ads do no better.
- asdfologist 12y agoThanks. But as skeptical as I am of the extortion claims, I don't see how this study debunks anything. All it does is show that there's no evidence of a systematic bias in the filter, but it doesn't disprove at all that Yelp manually tweaked results in isolated cases, which is what they were accused of.
- debt 12y agoThis is why Yelp should kill two birds with one stone and just open source both their filtering algorithm and their rating algorithm. This would cause more engineers to want to work at Yelp and stop this PR fiasco where people think Yelp is gaming the system. With the algo's out in the open we all can finally move on from this "extortion" rumor.
- imaginenore 12y agoThe prizes are ridiculously low. Netflix did it right. Stop being so greedy, Yelp.
- minimaxir 12y agoNote that the prizes are only for students.
- Houshalter 12y agoThere are a lot of Kaggle competitions with similar prizes. Netflix is an outlier.
- ep103 12y ago5k to help yelp? please.
- Houshalter 12y agoYes it's ridiculous, I'm just saying it's not atypical for these kinds of contests.
- TheAlchemist 12y agoExtremely low indeed. Most Kaggle competitions have higher prizes. Btw, anybody knows if there is somewhere a list of those type of contests ?
- general_failure 12y ago5000$ is ridiculously low.
- btbuildem 12y agoWow that's a tiny carrot to dangle, Yelp.