Interactive map of top-rated restaurants in Greater Boston
This interactive map visualizes the distribution of top-rated restaurants (4 stars or above) across Greater Boston, using data from the public Yelp dataset. A drop-down menu filters the choropleth by cuisine type, while hovering over a town displays its name and restaurant count in a tooltip. The map supports zooming and panning via d3.zoom. It uses d3.geoPath with a geoIdentity projection to render TopoJSON town boundaries, and d3.scaleThreshold to map restaurant counts to a sequential red color scale.
AI-generated descriptionYelp data map
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. You can also select menu on the top to choose different types of food.