{"id":4967,"date":"2012-06-18T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes-samuel\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:32:56","slug":"the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4967 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes-samuel\/attachment\/4968\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5kr3dbdw11qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5kr3dbdw11qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5kr3dbdw11qzxaqho1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/01\/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/author\/arbesman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Arbesman<\/a>\u00a0of <em>Wired.com<\/em>]\u00a0decided to explore the dimension of the ZIP Code system and see if it has a similar type of fractal dimension. I did this using the wonderful images created by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eagereyes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Kosara<\/a>\u00a0called<a href=\"http:\/\/eagereyes.org\/zipscribble-maps\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\">ZIPScribbles<\/a>, which connect the coordinates of sequential ZIP codes (02445 is connected to 02446, 02446 is connected to 02447, and so forth). As you can see below, there is a geographically hierarchical nature to it. ZIP codes divide the population first into states, and then divide into little scribble regions even further, in a self-similar fashion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes [Samuel Arbesman\u00a0of Wired.com]\u00a0decided to explore the dimension of the ZIP Code system and see if it has a similar type of fractal dimension. I did this using the wonderful images created by\u00a0Robert Kosara\u00a0calledZIPScribbles, which connect the coordinates of sequential ZIP codes (02445 is connected to 02446, 02446 is connected &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/the-fractal-dimension-of-zip-codes-samuel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}