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Least Surprising Stat of the Day: 80% of the U.S. Lives Within 20 Miles of a Starbucks
Unless you live near Grand Teton National Park, a Frappuccino is never far away.
A Venti-nonfat-caramel-Frappuccino is no more than 20 miles away from most Americans.
University of Washington doctoral candidate James Davenport posted graphics on his blog charting Starbucks-owned locations in the country two ways: a Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagram (fancy names for cool diagrams). As the Atlantic Wire reports on the former, "[T]he green dots representing Starbucks cluster around big cities, and with the connecting lines, the map basically looks the same as a regular old map of the U.S."