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What Is Your City's Most Distinctive Starbucks Order?
Over on Quartz, Roberto A. Ferdman and David Yanofsky have mapped out a great dataset from Starbucks (above), showing which sorts of drinks are ordered in different parts of the country....
Facebook Data Provide The Most Accurate MLB Fandom Map Ever Created
Just in time for Opening Day, the Facebook data team has released a map showing which MLB teams have the most Facebook fans, by county....
The History Of New York Hip-Hop In One Packed Map
As part of their ambitious 100 Years of New York Music coverage, New York magazine commissioned Sarah King—known for her dense, typographical illustrations—to make a map of notable hip-hop landmarks in the city. Check out 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, which may be the "birthplace of Hip-Hop," a...
Mariners Will Travel 51,540 Miles In 2014, Circle Earth Twice
Over at Baseball Savant, Daren Willman has put together a neat interactive chart that lets you explore how far each team will travel on the road in 2014. The Mariners—who are around 700 miles away from any other baseball team—will travel the farthest total distance at 51,540 miles. That's more than ...
Over 1,200 California Wineries On Two Beautiful Maps
Following up their poster of 2,500+ American breweries, Pop Chart Lab has put together two lovely maps featuring 1,200+ California wineries. If you're real hardcore, you can go compare them to some soil maps and impress people with your intimate knowledge of terroir. If you're less hardcore, take a ...
Phil Kessel Vs. The Water Bottle, Water Bottle Wins
It was that kind of night for the Leafs, one that started with James Reimer giving up a goal on the first shot he faced, saw a scary injury to Paul Ranger, Kessel's inability to properly hydrate, and ended 5-3 Lightning, more fodder for the Reimer discussion....
Idiot Invades Ice At Air Canada Centre, Gets Pummeled By Security
We're still seeking good video of this, but late in Tampa Bay's 5-3 win over the Leafs a Toronto fan somehow managed to scale the glass and make his way onto the ice during a timeout. The fan, we're told, ran around on the ice, squatted in a faceoff circle, then got pummeled by security. Send us vid...
Paul Ranger Stretchered Off After Being Boarded By Alex Killorn
Officials called an early end to the first period in Toronto tonight as Maple Leafs defenseman Paul Ranger had to be stretchered off the ice due to a crushing blow into the boards delivered by the Lightning's Alex Killorn....
Map: How Hollywood Has Destroyed America
How many times have you seen New York City destroyed onscreen? Los Angeles? Kansas? For nearly as long as there have been movies, there have been disaster movies. The map above shows 189+ such cinematic attacks—using a very broad definition of the "disaster" genre—that have afflicted various parts o...
Map: What's The Nearest Coffee Chain?
Last fall, Nathan Yau took an interesting look at which pizza joints dominated which parts of the country. But what about coffee chains?...
Map: The United States Of America, By Meat
This is fun. L.V. Anderson and Jess Fink of Slate started with a simple observation—Americans consume more meat per person than any other nation on earth (except Luxembourg, those gluttons), yet most of our official state foods are not meat—and have created a map that assigns a unique meat or meat-...
Where Did The Goalies Go?
Andrew Lickenbrock has created this handy-dandy map to show movement in the days leading up to an especially goalie-heavy trade deadline. Eleven netminders were dealt—one of them, Jaroslav Halak, moved twice—and there were four separate goalie-for-goalie trades. A crazy few days for the NHL's weirdo...
A Map Of Each State's Most-Ignored Musical Artist
Whereas music blogger Paul Lamere's "most distinctive" map that one showed which bands and singers were disproportionately popular in certain states when compared to national numbers, this is the exact opposite. ...
Here Is An <em>Actual</em> Map Of Each State's Favorite Musical Artist
A lot of folks were confused by the map of the most distinctive bands and singers by state. (Not you, though, because you know how to read.) So here's another one, which actually shows the most-streamed artist in each state over the last year....
Beyond Bunnies: 14 Other Islands Packed With Your Favorite Animals
If you've spent time on the internet, you've probably heard of Snake Island, Rabbit Island, and Cat Island, all great examples of how the size and isolation of islands can occasionally cause some wacky/horrifying ecosystems to develop. (It helps if said island was home to a secret chemical weapons f...
Who's Your State's Distinctive Musical Artist?
Over on his blog Music Machinery, Paul Lamere has taken an interesting look at the geography of American musical tastes, based on zip code data from a quarter million U.S. music listeners who use a variety of streaming services (online music listeners might not be a perfectly representative sample, ...
What Olympic Sport Is Your Country Most Excited About?
The data people over at Facebook have put together the map above—based on Facebook mentions—showing which Olympic sports different countries are talking about the most. Data are through the 13th; click here for a much larger version. There are tons of interesting tidbits in here, with usual caveats ...
Beautiful Maps Reveal Where People Run In 22 Major Cities
Over on FlowingData, Nathan Yau pulled public data from the tracking site RunKeeper.com to map out the common running routes of twenty major cities. The results are neat to look at, but it's also interesting to see the park systems, waterways, and urban grids of these cities come to come life....
Where Do Our Winter Olympians Come From?
This morning, the Washington Post published a map and list of the home states of the U.S.'s Winter Olympians. Commenter Jessica Minton wasn't a fan, so she took the data and created her own interactive map that breaks down the states' athletes by gender and by sport....