billcruise/billionairesus

R scripts to scrape and plot data on billionaires in the United States

BillionairesUS

R scripts to scrape and plot data on billionaires in the United States

I noticed the following chart on Wikipedia's list of U.S. states by number of billionaires.

A few outliers really skew the bin sizes, so I started out trying to reproduce the map by scraping the data and plotting it in R. That's done in billionaires.R.

This looks a lot like a heatmap of the United States, with the most populous states like CA, NY, TX, and FL, having the most billionaires. Not very suprising. So I scraped population data as well, and combined it to create a column for billionaires per capita. That's done in billionaires_per_capita.R. This reveals that states like Wyoming (9 billionaires in a population of less than 600,000) and Connecticut (17 billionaires, 3.5 million people) have an inordinate number of billionaires for their population size.

Reference: I used Choropleth Maps in R to learn how to plot the data on a map.