Map of top-rated restaurants in Greater Boston
This choropleth map visualizes the distribution of top-rated restaurants (4 stars or higher) across Greater Boston municipalities, using a red color scale where darker shades indicate higher restaurant counts and grey represents areas without data. The map is interactive, supporting zooming via d3.zoom and hover tooltips that display each town's name and restaurant count. Built with D3 v5, it uses d3.geoPath with a geoIdentity projection and topojson to render Massachusetts town boundaries. The data comes from the public Yelp dataset, filtered and aggregated by city.
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The original dataset is from public Yelp dataset.
The data used for this visualization is filtered on top-rated restaurants in Greater Boston (GB) area. Top-rated restaurants are defined as 4 stars or above.
This map shows top restaurants distributions in GB area. Colors represents number of restaurants. Grey color is no data area, and red colors are cities with data (in Greater Boston area). A deeper red means a higher amount of top-rate restaurants. This is an interactive map that you can zoom in and hover over the cities of interests, and then the names and the numbers of restaurants will be shown in the tooltips.