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Note the restrictions in the terms of use, which prevent redistribution of the data or any summaries "on any website or other electronic media not covered by this agreement."

Would this prohibit making a blog post on an analysis of the data?

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A blog post analyzing the dataset is fine, and many have been published. Our limitation is on redistribution of Yelp's dataset itself.

What about visualizations of analysis of the data (say using an R Shiny app), ensuring of course, that the raw data could not be downloaded?

Visualizations and analysis of the data are allowed and encouraged. If you are a student you should submit to the challenge as well!

Thanks for the clarification! I had done an analysis of Amazon review data of a similar size ( http://minimaxir.com/2014/06/reviewing-reviews/ ) so it would be interesting to compare/contrast review data and behavior between industries.

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