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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: Cartogr Geogr Inf Sci. 2013 Apr 19;40(2):90–102. doi: 10.1080/15230406.2013.776210

Table 4. Proximity Analysis between Location of Tweets related to ‘Obesity and food habit’ theme and location of McDonalds restaurants.

Search
Radius
in miles
Percentage of
Tweets with
at least one
McDonald
Average Distance
to the Nearest
McDonald in
miles
Average Number
of McDonalds
Average Distance
to all McDonalds in
miles
0.25 17.84 (7,890) 0.15 2 0.17
0.5 36.00 (15,923) 0.26 3 0.32
1.0 55.93 (24,736) 0.44 3 0.51
1.5 68.92 (30,483) 0.59 4 0.82
2.0 73.53 (32,521) 0.66 6 1.12
2.5 75.43 (33,362) 0.70 7 1.41
3.0 76.05 (33,636) 0.72 9 1.70
3.5 76.31 (33,754) 0.73 11 2.00
4.0 76.64 (33,899) 0.74 13 2.25
4.5 76.83 (33,982) 0.75 15 2.54
5.0 77.00 (34061) 0.76 17 2.81

Note: The first column lists the search radius; column 2 is the percentage of tweets with at least one McDonald within the search radius in column 1, column 3 shows the average distance to the nearest McDonald in miles, column 4 is the number of McDonalds in the search radius, and column 5 shows the average distance to all McDonalds in miles within the search radius.