It’s not necessarily the most popular food, but it’s the food that more people in that state are tweeting about than any other. In Texas, we talk about brisket because, well, brisket is awesome. Miss Cellania’s Kentucky is tacoland. In Wyoming, people want to share their thoughts about watercress.
The Twitter4Food research team at the University of Arizona published an online paper and a set of interactive data visualizations to share the results of their study of 3.5 million tweets published between October 2013 and May 2014.
You can search the United States to see who has an interest in particular foods, such as sheep brains (a traditional Southern delicacy).
You can also create heat maps for the entire world to see what regions are tweeting about foods, such as this map showing tweets about Scotch eggs.
-via First We Feast
Comments (3)
That was........ weird.
that was way too awesome.
Anyway. I liked it.
Agreed, a cool video, something relatively original at least.
In a phonetics class I took in college:
The professor recorded herself saying something like
"Mal atTILLa da HE rem", then played it backwards and it became "Marry had a little lamb."
We also had to learn how to transcribe and say our names backward, so when it recording reversed it sounded like our names.