PROJECT_01 / MARKET_INTELLIGENCE
Toronto African & Caribbean Restaurant Market Intelligence
A market intelligence workflow that turns customer reviews into a practical launch blueprint for an African and Caribbean fusion restaurant. The project brings together web-sourced review data, a PostgreSQL data model, cloud NLP sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and an interactive reporting layer.
Business question
What does the Toronto market say about a new fusion restaurant?
Review-level analysis was used to identify customer sentiment, recurring themes, and service or menu signals that can inform a market-entry plan.
Database work
From flat reviews to an analysis-ready relational model.
- Restaurant, review, and analysis tables
- Cleaned, deduplicated review records
- SQLAlchemy-based loading to PostgreSQL
Analytics output
Operational signals, not just charts.
- Mean sentiment score: 0.497
- 67% of reviews expressed satisfaction
- Cuisine-segment comparison
- Top customer keywords and themes