Watching the Growth of Walmart

10 March 2009 at 12:10 am 3 comments

| 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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  • 1. Andre Sammartino's avatar 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:

    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.

  • 2. YU LEI's avatar 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.

  • 3. onealbumaday's avatar 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:

    Scattergun Target expansion

    And so the circle of blog-life continues to turn…

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