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“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

2025-02-14 This write-up was originally posted on reddit, though I've cleaned things up specifically for this post. Due to reasons discussed towards the end of this post, I'm not entirely happy with the results and intend to take another shot at it in the near future.

There are alternatives such as Yelp, but their API is horrifically expensive for poor old me, and I was not in the mood to build a web scraper (it has the same soul-sucking effect on me as prompting an LLM). The raw Google Places API-output also needed to be clipped to the study area, projected to the local UTM zone as well as converted to a geospatial format; It could very well be that whatever conditions affect Paris restaurants (whether it be higher rent, wages, tourism, population density...) had a larger impact than I initially suspected.

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