{"id":2168,"date":"2013-01-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:34:30","slug":"watch-the-growth-of-walmart-and-sams-club-1962-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/watch-the-growth-of-walmart-and-sams-club-1962-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the growth of Walmart and Sam&#8217;s Club, 1962-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/DataVisFieldGroups.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2175\" title=\"DataVisFieldGroups\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/DataVisFieldGroups-289x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/DataVisFieldGroups-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/DataVisFieldGroups.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes you just have to &#8220;see&#8221; the numbers to believe them. Walmart has to be one of the most ubiquitous big-box stores in North America. When it comes to how many retail outlets there are, there&#8217;s really no number that would surprise me. But if you translate that statistic into a cool data visualization map, I&#8217;m blown away. Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.flowingdata.com\/walmart\/\">video<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/\">FlowingData<\/a> where you can watch Walmart &#8220;spread like wild fire&#8221; across the US.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from www.neoformix.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to &#8220;see&#8221; the numbers to believe them. Walmart has to be one of the most ubiquitous big-box stores in North America. When it comes to how many retail outlets there are, there&#8217;s really no number that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/watch-the-growth-of-walmart-and-sams-club-1962-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-data-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}