As a restaurant owner, I hate Yelp. You can’t update any information or remove the old reviews even if the restaurant is under a new name and new management.

I honestly don’t think Yelp data will ever predict anything and hope Yelp will be gone out of their bullying business in a few years.

No matter how good your approach in data science is, what you just based on is complaints/boastings from self-labeled foodies who just want to show off. Should bank ever consider these data? No, the worst!!

Moreover your area of choice is a small city in a under-populated state.

I don’t think it can apply to New York city or San Francisco or anywhere else where it’s much more complicated to predict, especially when you start with the wrong data set.