Soda Or Pop? A Twitter Map Of Soft Drinks [MAP]

There is actually a geographical pattern to what people call soft drinks, and a data scientist has mapped it – using Twitter.

Edwin Chen examined geo-tagged tweets that contained either “pop”, “soda” or “coke” to determine what people typically call their fizzy drinks where.

He filtered out tweets that were not actually soft drink related and the “coke” tweets that referred specifically to the brand Coca-Cola.

The below map of the US shows the aggregated nearby tweets containing one of the three soda pop terms:

So what can we glean from this data? Here’s Chen’s takeaways:

• The South is pretty Coke-heavy.