Atlantic City: Map of the Day: Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke
The map above is the latest play on the old "pop" vs. "soda" map of the United States. Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter who conducted math and linguistics research at MIT, compiled tweets that used either "coke," "soda," or "pop" when describing a soft drink. The red on the map shows places where "coke" is more prevalently tweeted, green indicates "pop," and blue is for "soda." Chen describes his method for organizing, cleaning, and aggregating the data: ...
Huh, interesting. I guess I've always called it "sody-pop". I grew up in Wisconsin so I must have absorbed the lingo.
Posted by: Dan | Jul 23, 2012 at 04:05 PM