Someone recently figured out the Gravitational Center of Starbucks in Manhattan, and Adam over at UniversalHub set out to discern the true center of coffee in Boston:

Trouble struck after 80 locations, though - when I tried to bring up the 81st location, I got an error message. Wah! So what I'm about to reveal is based on 80 Dunkin' Donuts locations located within roughly 4.5 miles of Government Center. But first, how I figured it out: With all those latitudes and longitudes (if you want the coordinates, let me know), I basically summed up each, figured out the average, then fed that into Google Maps - to deliver that ultimate in Boston Dunkin' Donutness. And the hub of the Boston coffee universe is:

The intersection of Chestnut and Walnut streets on Beacon Hill (to be exact: the south side of Chestnut a couple doors down from Walnut).

We did our own, much lazier invesigation with just Google Maps' search feature and found many less locations of both the venerable DD and Starbucks. Interestingly enough, when our helplessly flawed data is viewed at comparable scale it seems the distribution of Dunkin Donuts does not vary that much from Starbucks. Compare:

and

No, we're not going to tell you which is which, because we want you to realize that it's not easy to figure that out.

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