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Interactive Maps of Billionaires

Filed in Maps and Cartography, Web Mapping by Caitlin Dempsey on April 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

Shown here are three interactive maps created using Google Fusion Tables.  The first map shows a gradient map of the world’s billionaires based on residency and aggregated by country.  The second map shows a heat map of the world’s billionaire’s based on their place of residence (aggregated by location).  The third map shows the individual [...]

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Geography of Billionaires: Mapping Nationalities and Residency

Filed in Cartography, GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on April 27, 2012 • 1 Comment
Geography of Billionaires: Mapping Nationalities and Residency

Forbes recently released an updated list of the world’s billionaires.  The listing contains the ranking for 1,226 individuals and families who’s net worth as of March of 2012 was 1 billion USD or more.  Since the listings contained both a country of citizenship and residence, this allows for a peek at the geography of billionaires. [...]

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Geography of Billionaires: Total Counts of the World’s Billionaires by Country for Residency and Citizenship, and by City

Filed in GIS Data by Caitlin Dempsey on April 27, 2012 • 0 Comments

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