If you're a fan of social media and the Big Apple head on over to Fast Company to check out these beautiful infographics on the languages of New York mapped out by Tweets.
As one might expect, Midtown Manhattan is exceptionally multi-lingual with other areas of the city being dominated by particular groups - Spanish in the Bronx, Russian in Brighton Beach, etc. Amazingly, however, all these hundreds of thousands of tweets only represent 6% of the number of tweet that went out during the time the data was collected. The other 94% of tweets belonging to English speakers (who may in fact be bilingual).
Really interesting data, and as Fast Co. point out, this could be an interesting way to look at urban planning. But, if nothing else, it's nice to look at.
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