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Review and recommendation systems have become a big part of how people consume different products and businesses today. Yelp is a great example of a huge database of reviews on businesses ranging from restaurants, gas stations, salons, and even doctors. The way people consume this extensive database is very much limited to looking at the star rating of the business, which ignores so many other perspectives. We combine various signals from the reviews and spatial data to come up with an algorithm to find the local experts. Yelp provides a large subset of its data for experimentation and we use this dataset to test our hypotheses. Finding local experts can be used in many ways, such as generating weighted, more accurate reviews for businesses, and to create recommendations for new users. If you visit Paris for the first time, you would now be able to get suggestions for food and things to do from native French people who are local experts in those things. 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