Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

by kferaday | July 10, 2008 at 08:42 pm | 113 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

This isn't really news but it is an interesting visual commentary on the impact Walmart has had on America -- a virus that starts slowly and innocuously enough but rapidly "infects" the entire nation. Now if only we could find an antidote.

In the spirit of Toby's Walmart growth video, using data from Freebase, I mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire.