If you find Foursquare and Yelp restaurant reviews too subjective, here's a somewhat more robust method for harnessing social data to inform your dining choices. By collating tweets about unhappy meals and their locations, a group of University of Rochester researchers have been able to generate a map of potentially risky places to eat. More specifically, the nEmesis system looks for tweets that suggest their author is "likely suffering from a foodborne illness" and then tie the tweet's GPS information to the address of the likeliest restaurant visited.
After working through some 3.8 million tweets from more than 94,000 New Yorkers, the Rochester team found a valid correlation between their system's predicted health score and official...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613154/food-poisoning-tweet-map-research
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