Two years, four highly competitive rounds, over $35,000 in cash prizes awarded and several hundred peer-reviewed papers later: the Yelp Dataset Challenge is doubling up. We are proud to announce our latest dataset that includes information about local businesses in 10 cities across 4 countries. This dataset contains 1.6M reviews and 500K tips by 366K users for 61K businesses along with rich attributes data (such as hours of operation, ambience, parking availability) for these businesses, social network information about the users, as well as aggregated check-ins over time for all these users. This treasure trove of local business data is waiting to be mined and we can’t wait to see you push the frontiers of data science research with our data. Submit your Data Science project by June 30, 2015 to win one of several prizes.
