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#Result

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Figure 4. Map of Healthy Tweets in Vancouver

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Figure 5. Map of Unhealthy Tweets in Vancouver

By applying our various methods of analysis described above, we yielded three main results:Downtown Vancouver had the highest density of tweets about eating habits. This makes sense given the high density of restaurants in the downtown core in addition to having the highest population density . East Broadway (another street with a high number of restaurants) also showed signs of high density along that strip in both healthy and unhealthy tweets. Healthy tweets did not have such an evident pattern. What is interesting to note is how much more spread out unhealthy tweets are outside of the downtown and East Broadway areas and on strips that generally contain restaurants such as Commercial Drive. These areas with unhealthy clusters differed in population density. This could be an indication of emotional and mental health differences that differ in areas with a lot of people and little people.

Negative emotions tend to have similar trends as unhealthy tweets Downtown.
Downtown Vancouver had very similar unhealthy and healthy tweet densities in the downtown core with healthy tweets being slightly more widespread than unhealthy tweets.

Green spaces did not have a strong correlation with health.
While distance to parks were also looked at to suggest areas with more green space would contain a higher density of healthy tweets, there was no correlation strong enough to report.
From these results, we are able to identify some initial trends and correlations between the locations that unhealthy or healthy tweets are being produced and various elements of the cities landscape such as transit systems and food vendors.