•New York City's demographics show that it is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. It is the largest city in the United States with a long history of international immigration. New York City was home to nearly 8.5 million people in 2018, accounting for over 40% of the population of New York State and a slightly lower percentage of the New York metropolitan area, home to approximately 23.6 million. Over the last decade the city has been growing faster than the region. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States.
•This final project explores the best locations for Japanese restaurants throughout the city of New York. As New York is the most diverse city in the world (800 languages are spoken in New York), it has a long tradition of different ethnical restaurants. Now when the idea of a healthy lifestyle conquered the minds of people all over the country, Japanese restaurants became extremely popular, as they offer a healthy alternative to regular American eating habits. That's why potentially the owner of the new Japanese restaurant can have great success and consistent profit. However, as with any business, opening a new restaurant requires serious considerations and is more complicated than it seems from the first glance. In particular, the location of the restaurant is one of the most important factors that will affect whether it will have success or a failure. So our project will attempt to answer the questions “Where should the investor open a Japanese Restaurant?” and “Where should I go If I want great Japanese food?”
•In order to answer the above questions, data on New York City neighborhoods, boroughs to include boundaries, latitude, longitude, restaurants, and restaurant ratings and tips are required.
•New York City data containing the neighborhoods and boroughs, latitudes, and longitudes will be obtained from the data source: https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset
•All data related to locations and quality of Japanese restaurants will be obtained via the FourSquare API utilized via the Request library in Python.
•Data will be collected from https://cocl.us/new_york_dataset and cleaned and processed into a dataframe.
• FourSquare be used to locate all venues and then filtered by Japanese restaurants. Ratings, tips, and likes by users will be counted and added to the dataframe.
• Data will be sorted based on rankings.
• Finally, the data will be visually assessed using graphing from Python libraries.
•What is / are the best location(s) for Japanese cuisine in New York City? In what Neighborhood and/or borough should the investor open a Japanese restaurant to have the best chance of being successful? Where would I go in New York City to have the best Japanese food?