Repository to store progress on Assignment 2 of course Large Scale Data Analysis.
In 2019, a study looked into the use of the word "authentic" in Yelp reviews and how it was used to signal different characteristics from cuisine to cuisine. They found that, for example, in Chinese and Mexican restaurants, the word was used to describe typically negative things like "dirty", "kitsch" or "cheap", where Italian and French restaurants used to signal high quality and delicious details. The author sees this tendency as harmful, trapping non-white restaurant-owners in negative stereotypes. The task was to test the study by analysing large scale data (yelp reviews) using Spark in a distributed cluster of computing and storage nodes.