Analyzing Google Maps' Algorithmic Impact on London Restaurant Visibility and Survival

I was tired of doom-scrolling Google Maps, trying to disentangle genuinely good food from whatever the algorithm had decided to push at me that day.

Somewhere along the way, the project stopped being about dinner and became about something slightly more unhinged: how digital platforms quietly redistribute economic survival across cities.

Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead.

Because once you start looking at London's restaurants through data, you see how algorithmic curation affects which businesses survive.