Beer on Twitter: Finding Drinking Patterns in Tweet Data (Infographic)

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Maps show beer preferences across America.
Researchers create maps of beer preferences by geotagging tweets.
(Image: © By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist)

Tweets sent between June 2012 and May 2013 were searched for keywords pertaining to beer. Geotagging allowed the tweets to be located on a map, called a “cyberscape.”