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Business market analysis  of  Mexican restaurants  in  Los Angeles California  This post is meant to be a scouting mission of sorts to figure out the potential for a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, California. We will be examining multiple venues starting in a specified location. Let’s start our search in University Park to determine if it might be a good area for a new Mexican restaurant.   Foursquare has a great repository of information for this application! We can see all the venues in the area and map them out to see what areas might be under or over served. We can also check out user information to find out if the venues in each area are frequented and how often and even how well people like each specific venue !   I stated earlier we are examining the University Park section of Los Angeles, California . This seems like a good location on the surface since there are relatively few Mexican restaurants in the area but not so few that we c...
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 Business Market Analysis Introduction / Business Problem This analysis is meant to help a business venture choose between locations. Specifically we will look at Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles. Finding a neighborhood that is not saturated with other Mexican restaurants would be a great place to start! Data scrape for list of neighborhoods in LA First we need to set some variables, including defining the source of our information. We will be scraping LAalminac.com to get out communities and zip codes. Here we are creating a list, finding our cells, cleaning some unnececary characters, and appending our list. Next we must split the data at the commas. Here we have the bulk of our data cleaning! See the comments for more information on what is happening but the basic idea is to take a list of strings and turn some of the items into int, while also getting rid of some extra zip codes we wont be using and fix a couple formatting problems. We will also be grabbing some latitude and ...
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