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1 Posted: February 14, 2014 | Author: Hilary Mason | Filed under: blog | Tags: data , food | Leave a comment » I spent a few minutes this week putting together a quick script to pull data from the Locu API . [sent-2, score-1.049]
2 Locu has done the hard work of gathering and parsing menus from around the US and has a lot of interesting data (and a good data team ). [sent-3, score-0.51]
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4 I’m a big fan of Pete Warden’s OpenHeatMap tool for making quick map visualizations, and was able to come up with the following: The blue map is the average price of a cheeseburger by zip, with the red one showing the average price of pizza. [sent-5, score-2.133]
5 The most expensive average cheeseburger can be found in Santa Clara, CA, ironically the city currently hosting the Strata data science conference this week. [sent-6, score-1.1]
6 You can also see some fun words in the pizza topping options: In this plot, the x-axis is roughly geographic (ordered by zip code) and the y-axis is in order of popularity, with pepperoni being the most popular common pizza topping, and anchovies among the least. [sent-8, score-1.369]
7 This is just a quick look at some data, but hopefully it’ll encourage you to play with your food (data)! [sent-9, score-0.712]
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