Dataset Card for YelpReviewFull

  Dataset Summary

The Yelp reviews dataset consists of reviews from Yelp. It is extracted from the Yelp Dataset Challenge 2015 data.

  Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

text-classification, sentiment-classification: The dataset is mainly used for text classification: given the text, predict the sentiment.

  Languages

The reviews were mainly written in english.

  Dataset Structure





  Data Instances

A… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Yelp/yelp_review_full.

Context

This dataset is a subset of Yelp's businesses, reviews, and user data. It was originally put together for the Yelp Dataset Challenge which is a chance for students to conduct research or analysis on Yelp's data and share their discoveries. In the most recent dataset you'll find information about businesses across 8 metropolitan areas in the USA and Canada.

Content

This dataset contains five JSON files and the user agreement. More information about those files can be found here.

Code snippet to read the files

in Python, you can read the JSON files like this (using the json and pandas libraries):

import json
import pandas as pd
data_file = open("yelp_academic_dataset_checkin.json")
data = []
for line in data_file:
 data.append(json.loads(line))
checkin_df = pd.DataFrame(data)
data_file.close()

This dataset is a subset of Yelp's businesses, reviews, and user data. It was originally put together for the Yelp Dataset Challenge which is a chance for students to conduct research or analysis on Yelp's data and share their discoveries. In the most recent dataset you'll find information about businesses across 8 metropolitan areas in the USA and Canada.

Large Yelp Review Dataset. This is a dataset for binary sentiment classification. We provide a set of 560,000 highly polar yelp reviews for training, and 38,000 for testing. ORIGIN The Yelp reviews dataset consists of reviews from Yelp. It is extracted from the Yelp Dataset Challenge 2015 data. For more information, please refer to http://www.yelp.com/dataset-challenge The Yelp reviews polarity dataset is constructed by Xiang Zhang (xiang.zhang@nyu.edu) from the above dataset. It is first used as a text classification benchmark in the following paper: Xiang Zhang, Junbo Zhao, Yann LeCun. Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015).

Yelp Review Polarity DatasetVersion 1, Updated 09/09/2015ORIGINThe Yelp reviews dataset consists of reviews from Yelp. It is extracted from the Yelp Dataset Challenge 2015 data. For more information, please refer to http://www.yelp.com/dataset_challengeThe Yelp reviews polarity dataset is constructed by Xiang Zhang (xiang.zhang@nyu.edu) from the above dataset. It is first used as a text classification benchmark in the following paper: Xiang Zhang, Junbo Zhao, Yann LeCun. Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015).

This dataset contains reviews of local business in 12 metropolitan areas across 4 countries.

This dataset is a subset of the Yelp Challenge, it contains all the reviews in the year of 2015

Yelp Reviews Full (YELP): It was obtained from the Yelp Data Challenge of 2015, containing about 700K reviews on differentkinds of businesses, including restaurants, shopping, home services, etc.

The files:
texts.txt: Document set (text). One per line.
score.txt: Document class whose index is associated with texts.txt
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