{"id":10429,"date":"2007-01-16T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/16\/state-of-the-gdp.html"},"modified":"2007-01-16T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T23:01:37","slug":"state_of_the_gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/state_of_the_gdp.html","title":{"rendered":"State of the GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"State GDPs as national GDPs\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stategdpmap.gif\" width=\"500\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just to give a perspective on the economic size and strength of the US, here&#8217;s a map of the US with each &#8220;state&#8221; replaced by the name of a country with a similar Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/state_gdp_map\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to give a perspective on the economic size and strength of the US, here&#8217;s a map of the US with each &#8220;state&#8221; replaced by the name of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6360,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/map_the_vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":0},"title":"Map the vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Sep-04 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a fun map that (a) charts current electoral votes to Kerry or Bush based on the most recent polls in each state, and (b) represents each state in size...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2004&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2004","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2004"},"img":{"alt_text":"electoralmap.gif","src":"\/blog\/images\/electoralmap.gif","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31270,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/adjusting-the-red-on-the-map.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":1},"title":"Adjusting the Red on the map","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-12 12:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When you look at a normal state map and fill in the colors for the presidential vote, it can look pretty distorted, because geographical size means nothing when it comes to electoral size.So here's a results map with the states resized\u00a0to match to match their ECV values. \u00a0Makes it a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8329,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/map_by_populati.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":2},"title":"Map by population","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Dec-05 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting map that displays countries in a size relative to their population. Not sure I'd want to be Australia ... (via BoingBoing)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4724,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/improvisation.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":3},"title":"Improvisation","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-04 7:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article here in the NY Times, to the effect that American foreign policy is almost always improvisational -- and, through that flexibility, often successful. Indeed, American rule in...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/good-science.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":4},"title":"Good science","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-12 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"See, this is how science works: Data is collected. Explanations about the data ensue. The explanations that fit the data are retained, and tested against additional data. But, wait, there are some unexplained data (or data gaps). Oh, hey, here's another possible explanation for those, which can be tested against\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/there-africa.html","url_meta":{"origin":10429,"position":5},"title":"There! Africa!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Oct-12 5:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Damn big place!Actually, it's much bigger than a lot of maps (or map projections) make it out to be. \u00a0(See also:\u00a0http:\/\/xkcd.com\/977\/) (h\/t +Vic Gundotra)Reshared post from +Tim O'ReillyAbsolutely mind-bending. \u00a0 Embedded Link True size of Africa Online maps that we use for directions use the Mercator projection, and this tends\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflowingdata.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2FTrue-size-of-Africa-954x696.png","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflowingdata.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2FTrue-size-of-Africa-954x696.png 1x, https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflowingdata.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2FTrue-size-of-Africa-954x696.png 1.5x, https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflowingdata.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2FTrue-size-of-Africa-954x696.png 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}