Yelp Dataset Challenge

[imaginenore]

The prizes are ridiculously low.

Netflix did it right.

Stop being so greedy, Yelp.

[TheAlchemist]

Extremely low indeed. Most Kaggle competitions have higher prizes.

Btw, anybody knows if there is somewhere a list of those type of contests ?

[minimaxir]

Note that the prizes are only for students.

[Houshalter]

There are a lot of Kaggle competitions with similar prizes. Netflix is an outlier.

[huhtenberg]

Is Yelp still penalizing listed businesses that don't pay them?

[stevejohnson]

I often forget the exact name of the fallacy this type of question embodies, so for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

The common analogue being, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

[debt]

This 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.

[codezero]

Do you have a source on that penalty? What kind of penalty is it, and does it relate to this challenge?

[yochaigal]

So 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-...

[general_failure]

5000$ is ridiculously low.

[btbuildem]

Wow that's a tiny carrot to dangle, Yelp.