How many restaurants are in Nice?

How many restaurants on Yelp are in the $$$ or higher price category?

• In Yelp, the classification system for the expensiveness of a restaurant ranges from one dollar sign ("$") to four dollar signs ("$$$$") with one dollar sign being the least expensive and four dollar signs being the most expensive.  The question I would like answered is...how many restaurants in the Yelp database are classified as either three dollar signs ("$$$") or four dollar signs ("$$$$")?  So the answer would be a sum of all restaurants in the Yelp DB which are classified as "$$$" and all restaurants in the Yelp DB which are classified as "$$$$"...

• Answer:

  If you are technically inclined you can access this information using the Yelp Developer API. They rate limit developers so you you will probably have to do this via sample or compile the data over time.  https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/business LocalVox, a local marketing company, published a blog post in January 2014 with a breakdown of reviews by number of stars. While this doesn't break out type of merchant or address the estimated price, restaurants are north of 20% of Yelp merchants so there probably a high correlation.  This doesn't cover price but if you are using price as a proxy for quality this might help.  http://localvox.com/blog/5-fascinating-yelp-facts/ While I don't think they publish that specific data point you can find a bunch of cool Yelp stats at http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/yelp-statistics/ Finally, try tweeting @yelp and ask. This doesn't seem like a competitive data point. Maybe they'll tweet it back.