Saturday, December 17, 2011

Santa vs. Satan vs. Zombies

Article about a team that maps data points to show, geographically, internet content for Santa versus other malignant creatures such as Satan and zombies. (Story here).
Graham, who also runs the blogs floatingsheep.org and zerogeography.net worked with Monica Stephens, Taylor Shelton, and Matt Zook to look at the amount of content indexed by Google Maps at each location containing the term "Santa" and then comparing it. To zombies and Satan.

So, some places have more content referring to Santa, and others have more content mentioning "zombies," "devil," or Satan.
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Houston, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco all have more content referencing Satan and Zombies than Santa.

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