{"376201":{"#nid":"376201","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Online Reviews? Keep This in Mind","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp id=\u0022story-continues-1\u0022 class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022258\u0022 data-total-count=\u0022258\u0022\u003EThe size and racial makeup of a city, the price of a meal and even the weather can skew the quality and quantity of online restaurant reviews, according to the first large-scale academic study to analyze how outside factors affect crowd-sourced review sites.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022148\u0022 data-total-count=\u0022406\u0022\u003EThe study, which will be released Wednesday, used computer models to examine nearly 1.1 million reviews of 840,000 restaurants over nearly a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022346\u0022 data-total-count=\u0022752\u0022\u003EOnline reviewers posted most often in July and August, researchers said, but those reviews were more likely to be negative. And regardless of season, if the weather was uncomfortable, all the worse for the chef. The most negative reviews were written when it was colder than 40 degrees or warmer than 100 degrees, or if it was raining or snowing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022story-continues-2\u0022 class=\u0022story-body-text story-content\u0022 data-para-count=\u0022282\u0022 data-total-count=\u00221034\u0022\u003EThe researchers, Saeideh Bakhshi, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology; her husband, Partha Kanuparthy, who works for Yahoo Labs; and Eric Gilbert, an assistant professor at the university, said the weather\u2019s seeming sway over reviews surprised them the most.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-10 10:14:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Would never be part of any organization that would have me as a member","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/02\/dining\/online-reviews-keep-this-in-mind.html?ref=dining\u0026_r=0","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}