Why not make it available to everybody?<p>There's a lot of data mining talent in academia, but there's also a lot of us in the "real world" who follow what they do closely and add our own special twists because we've been doing data analysis for decades rather than teaching about it for decades.<p>Why keep the data under wraps? I can't see the data being all that valuable to Yelp's competitors, unless somebody wants to make a niche out of have stale data about university towns.