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by slothsleauth 359 days ago
You may be familiar with the interesting phenomenon where pizza locations near the Pentagon seem to get large spikes in traffic right before major events - a great example being the recent strikes on Iran, which also raised traffic significantly for nearby pizza shops. Using the Google Maps API, this process can be automated and visualized, as seen here.
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Pizza index is quite low at the moment on your website. Any reason why?
Yeah, that just means that the pizza shops are experiences usual traffic - nothing out of the ordinary yet.