Watching the Growth of Walmart
10 March 2009
| Peter Klein |
This animated map showing the US growth of Walmart from 1965 to 2007 proves the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Lots of other cool visualizations at FlowingData, like the Heavy Metal Band Names Flowchart. (Thanks to SKK.)
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Andre Sammartino | 10 March 2009 at 3:04 am
It is very cool isn’t it? I blogged about a couple of months back also:
http://internationalbs.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/spreading-like-wildfire-wal-mart-on-the-move/
I have a research student looking at retailer expansion internationally and am contemplating seeing if she’d tackle such a map globally for one of the big players that reports all store locations. Building a strong link to a research question is the challenge (beyond the easy anti-regionalisation(vs globalisation) applications. The charts look nifty though.
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YU LEI | 10 March 2009 at 5:16 pm
Very impressive. If including the Walmart all over the world, the chart would be more interesting.
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onealbumaday | 13 March 2009 at 3:20 am
They’ve now added a Target one:
http://projects.flowingdata.com/target/
And of course, I’ve then blogged about it:
http://internationalbs.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/scattergun-target-expansion/
And so the circle of blog-life continues to turn…