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Comment by mmanfrin | Hacker News Reader

What a neat visualization, but falls on its face by implying mean score correlates to poor hygiene. Certainly one would want to avoid low-scoring restaurants, but if a region has a high mean score it could mean lax enforcement and lower regional mean could indicate stricter enforcement.

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I'd love to see this analysis linked to (say) Yelp reviews complaining about food-poisoning (ala https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/0...). That would make it easier to spot when the health agency ratings don't match actual consumer health experience.

Are you allowed to complain about food poisoning on Yelp?

My town, which coincidentally happens to be Oxford like in the article, has its own local site "Daily info" which includes user-submitted restaurant reviews, and the review form asks you not to make allegations of food poisoning (presumably for legal reasons) and to submit possible food poisoning reports to the local authorities for investigation instead.

I note the Chinese takeaway I got food from last week shows up on this map as a bright red blob...

  > Are you allowed to complain about food poisoning on Yelp?

In the US, sure. UK libel laws could be used to suppress 'food poisoning' without a doctor's note, but I think you'd be pretty safe to say 'sick'/'vomit'/'diarrhea'.

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