Researchers Use Twitter to Analyze Each State’s Most-Talked about Food

It’s not necessarily the most popular food, but it’s the food that more people in that state are tweeting about than any other.

The Twitter4Food research team at the University of Arizona published an online paper and a set of interactive data visualizations to share the results of their study of 3.5 million tweets published between October 2013 and May 2014.

You can search the United States to see who has an interest in particular foods, such as sheep brains (a traditional Southern delicacy).

You can also create heat maps for the entire world to see what regions are tweeting about foods, such as this map showing tweets about Scotch eggs.