A Highly Scientific Analysis of Chinese Restaurant Names in NYC
Authors
@RileyLivingston
Description
This project is an exploratory analysis of Chinese restaurant names in NYC.
369 Chinese restaurant names were scraped from Yelp's website via a bot I built with Selenium and stored in a Pandas dataframe.
Data cleaning and preprocessing was subsequently conducted with Pandas and NumPy packages. Exploratory Analysis and vizualizations were done with Python libraries including; Matplotlib, Seaborn and Plotly.
Important Caveat
This analysis only considers unique Chinese restaurant names, meaning that restaurants that have multiple establishments with the same name will be treated as a single entity.
Network Analysis of Words in NYC Chinese Restaurant Names
Please wait for the interactive viz to load. It should only take a few seconds.
Viewing Instructions
- Hover over a node to see the word name
- The size of the node is relative to the total number of connections that word has to other words in restaurant names
Categories
Word Cloud of Words in NYC Chinese Restaurant Names
Sun & Moon
- Mr. Sun | Sun Wah Restaurant
- Moon Palace Kitchen | Spciy Moon East Village | New Moon
Old & New
- Old Captain Dumpling | Old Xi’an
- New Sze’s Garden | Jaew Hon New York | New Cottage | New Sweet Rice Kitchen
- New Hardee Chinese Restaurant | New China Wok Chinese Kitchen | New Peking
- New Fu Run Restaurant | New Golden Star | New Apolo | New Lin Wang | New China Restaurant
- New Golden Dragon Restauran | New No. 1 | New Chin Chin Wu Restaurant
- New Double Dragon | New Golden Fountain | New Moon | New De Xing Chinese Restaurant
- New Chinatown Restaurant of New York | New Sunrise Chinese Restaurant
Gold
- Golden Harbor | Golden Dragon Kitchen
- Trinidad Golden Place Restaurant | Golden House Kitchen
- New Golden Star | New Golden Dragon Restaurant
- Golden Forest | Chelsea Golden Wok
- Christopher’s Golden Woks | New Golden Fountain
- Golden Gate Restaurant | Golden House Restaurant
Jade
- Jade Bamboo | Jade Garden
Interactive Visualizations
Hover over the charts with your mouse to see the tooltip. Apply filters by clicking on the legend.
The most populated category represented is 'places' with 'restaurant' being the most common word within the category.
Shanghai
- Joe’s Shanghai
- Shanghai Zhen Gong Fu
- M Shanghai Bistro & Garden
- Shanghai 21
- Tri Dim Shanghai
- Tri Dim Shanghai West
- Shanghai Lee
- Shanghai Mong
- Steam - Shanghai Asian Fusion
- Tipsy Shanghai
- Memories of Shanghai
- Shanghai You Garden
Beijing
- Beijing Chinese & Japanese Food
- Beijing Dumpling House
- Beijing House
Hunan
- Hunan Delight
- Hunan K Restaurant
- Hunan Village
Sichuan
- Grand Sichuan
- The Best Sichuan
The most popular family names in NYC Chinese Restraunt names is Hong and Chen which combine to make up 18.75% of the family names present.
Languages and Packages Used
Python 3.9.13 | Numpy | Pandas | MatPlotLib | Seaborn | Selenium
Environments Used
VScode | Jupyter Notebooks
Data Source
Restaurant Data Scraped from Yelp
Methods
Exploratory data analysis | Web Scraping | Feature Engineering
Analysis
Selenium Web Scraping Bot
Exploratory Analysis Notebook
