Project for MSAN Data Visualization Class Team: Kunal Kotian and Sooraj Subrahmannian
Here's an overview of the contents of this repo:
The website built using the contents of this repo can be accessed here: https://smsubrahmannian.github.io/review_networks/
An explanation of the features of our visualizations is provided at the webpage above, along with the visualizations themselves.
Supporting files related to the webpage are sotred inside the "webpage" directory.
A video explaining the background and motivation behind our project, as well as how to use our interactive visualizations can be found at this url: https://youtu.be/hN2LjXEB7wM
The following 2 scripts are required for generating the 2 interactive visualizations:
restaurant_network.py: Creates an interactive network visualization of restaurants.topic_network.py: Creates an interactive network visualization of review topics.
Note that hosting the apps on Heroku requires us to keep the .py scripts in the main repo directory, instead of inside a "code" directory.
Also, the "notebooks" directory includes .ipynb notebooks with some of our experiments with the data processing and visualizations.
All data required to generate the visualizations is stored in the "data" directory. The original data source is the Yelp Challeenge (Link: https://www.yelp.com/dataset/documentation/json)
The slides we used to present this work for the Data Visualization class are located here: https://github.com/kunal-kotian/visualizing_review_networks/tree/master/slides