Mapping The Economy

US Metropolitan Economies allows you lot to compare the size of local economies throughout the United States. Using the map you lot tin sack sentiment together with compare the gross domestic product of U.S. metropolitan areas together with you lot tin equally good compare the size of unlike industries inwards each area.

Using the 2 drop-down menus you lot tin straight compare how 2 unlike manufacture sectors performed over xiii years (2001-2013). The scaled circles on the map exhibit the per centum that the manufacture contributed to the gross domestic product of the metropolitan area. If you lot hover over a circle you lot tin equally good sentiment the increase tendency of the selected manufacture inwards the expanse over the xiii twelvemonth period.

The map uses a Mapbox basemap amongst Leaflet.js. The dynamic tendency trouble graph is drawn using the D3.js library.