DubC Food scrapes Yelp to generate its database and hands off user to the Yelp entry. This allows for pre-populated data and categories, essentially Yelp does all the work.
As for output, a finished web database and the website driven by it is formed. Built using Yelp, it consists of a restaurant directory where users can look through venues nearby, find more detailed information about each one of them, and sort through reviews that helps rank these restaurants from previous visitors.
By using Yelp, Dub C Food generates familiarity with users. More than 145 million people visit Yelp each month. Users are accustomed to Yelp’s search interface, categories, star ratings, etc.
DubC Food will generate tons of user driven data that reflects student dining preferences and other metadata choices from their participation on the platform. This is valuable data for both the university and businesses.
