The Huffington Post and Yelp collaborated to produce this interesting map of popular store types in the United States. The store categories are general, such as “bookstores” or “outdoor gear.”
Each state’s most popular top ten was listed by The Huffington Post, but the map shows which category took the top spot in each state.
The data for the map was compiled using the listings on review site, Yelp. The Huffington Post explains the process:
“Yelp delved into its online catalogue of store listings and calculated the percentage of a given type of shopping business relative to the total number of business listings in that state.
Then, it compared those percentages with each type of store’s representation nationwide and produced a list of the top 10 most disproportionally common stores in each of the 50 states.”
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