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September 26, 2006

Geniuses, Geocoding, and the Forbes 400 List

I'm in a mapping frame of mind recently, having just Google mapped MacArthur awardees. This time around it's the Forbes 400 list of the wealthy that got my attention, and so here is a map of the billionaires among us. Click on it for a live version:


Interestingly, at least to me, the geographic distribution of Forbes 400 sorts is considerably more even than MacArthur "genius" award-winners. That said, it is useful to see where Forbes 400 members aren't, which is North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, etc. You might think that would be correlated with state GDP per capita, it is actually somewhat more closely related to state populations.

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