Friday, June 3, 2011

menu clouds

A couple of layovers later, I have the chance to post my latest bit of data analysis fun (time-wasting?). For some time now, I have been thinking of checking out the degree of "commonality" among menus here in RVA and a method of visualizing the same.

This last restaurant week and word clouds provided a nice opportunity to look at this data. Assuming that the 30 restaurants that participated provide a fairly good cross-section and are fairly representative of menu/food preferences in RVA (a decent approximation in retrospect), it was easy to extract the menus from here and voilà.

So here are the word distributions among menus in the area. Data interpretation is left to the kind reader (methinks the preponderance of 'safe' options is telling).

Entrée:


Main Course:


Dessert:

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