The TripAdvisor website has a wealth of informa$8$on on restaurants in many ci$8$es around the world.

The goal of this exercise is to start with raw data obtained from TripAdvisor and apply data

preprocessing techniques we are learning to obtain a dataset that will be compa$8$ble with machine

learning algorithms. We will also explore feature selec$8$on$.$ For this assignment I would like you to

use the Anaconda$/$Python$/$Scikitlearn plaForm we discussed in class.

A sample of data from $11,377$ restaurants was extracted from the TripAdvisor website into a comma

separated values $(.$csv$)$ file and is included with this assignment. Because cleaning the data is a lot

of work i recommend you choose a sample of $50$ restaurants for your assignment. For each

restaurant the following data is available: restaurant name, star ra$8$ng$,$ number of reviews, price

range, cuisine type, city and city popula$8$on$.$ As the data is in raw format it must be edited before it

can be used for machine learning. Your task is to determine what needs to be done to convert the

raw data into usable format and then apply it to the data. Visualize your data by making some

scaUerplots of pairs of features. Test various machine learning techniques such as support vector,

decision tree and k$-$nearest neighbors. Explore the result of choosing various features. For example,

how accurately can you predict the star ra$8$ng of a restaurant given all of the other features of the

restaurant? Which features had the most predic$8$ve value?

The assignment must be documented in a wriUen report. You must discuss how you edited your

data by showing a sample of data before and aYer the preprocessing. You must provide some

graphical visualiza$8$on of the data to see if there is any clustering and discuss what your inves$8$ga$8$on

revealed to you about the data. For example is there any rela$8$onship between average price per

meal and the star ra$8$ng$?$ Or is there any rela$8$onship between the size of the city and the average

price of the meal? Or perhaps between type of restaurant and star ra$8$ng$?$ The assignment is worth

$10$ points of your grade and must be uploaded to the blackboard assignment by the last day of class.