— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Yelp's Visionary 'Hipster Heatmap'
Yelp, the once proud restaurant review site, has turned to mining the mounds of data they've accumulated over the years for popular keywords like “PBR,” “bacon,” and “sketchy.” Aggregating the wisdom of their semi-literate foodie users, they've produced some handy maps showing just where to go in the city for all your sketchy cocktail consumption.
The biggest shock of all, of course, is that the Mission is a hipster neighborhood. Who knew??? Yelp knew, that's who.
Interestingly enough, the “yuppie” map overlaps quite nicely:
[Thanks, Olivia!]
Comments (20)
The term “hipster” has about another 8 - 12 months of life, I’d guess, before even corporate marketers stop using it.
Been around at least 60 years (probably a lot more). Why do you think it will die now?
are you still listening to alternative music
There’s a new Superchunk album out next month!
While we don’t think that it will “Die” The people that most people are calling Hipsters these days are what we would refer to as “techies” The mission seems to be pretty hipster less the last 4-5 years or so. We thought that all the real hipsters/artsy/real folks moved to Oakland or Portland.
Agreed. Nowadays, the word “hipster” seems to really mean “white people between the ages of 21 and 35 living in an urban area.” Class slang will never be what it used to be!
It’s hard for me to believe that you don’t actually know what hipsters are.
Uh,we know what hipsters are,just saying that as much as people bitch about “Hipsters” the phase passed the mission about 4-5 years ago. Most moved to oakland or portland or anywhere more affordable.
That’s crazytalk. The Mission is still neck deep in hipsters. Take a wander and you’ll see their standard plumage of ugly glasses, skinny jeans, bad beer and fixies everywhere.
The use of maps and technology is becoming awesome. Nice job Yelp.
they’re changing the world.
the world!
I tried to plug “douchebag” into the yelp mapping thing, but it wouldn’t work. Curses.
Ah, you have to go to Google Maps and click on the “my location” icon. I’m certain that will spot your douchebag.
total burn, bro
he got gurned
What? How is that going to show me where yelp reviews point out douchebags? Nonsense.
It would just be one big red blob over everything.
SAD FACE
http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/sf/frat No surprises here!
This is the very definition of Garbage In Garbage Out.