Happy National Almond Day!

Today’s map celebrates California’s hegemonic position as producer of 80% of the world’s almonds. The idea came to me when I went to find data on almonds, and some US government organization had an interactive map of the United States with almond production by state. (I should mention, it used an Albers Equal Area projection, which made me very happy!)

It had one map symbol — an orange circle — over California. The rest of the states were empty. And so… why not notch it up to the world?

Happy Almond Day!

Not interactive today. Just a map.

I ended up creating this with Perplexity. ChatGPT kept putting the California Almond on top of Africa and the small almond in the US. (Kind of funny somehow.) Also, ChatGPT refused to make a globe floating in space and instead kept presenting me with the flat-Earth hypothesis.

So I took ChatGPT’s subpar output and uploaded it to Perplexity with the following prompt and received what I was looking for.

Happy Almond Day!!!

Perplexity Prompt

Hi. Can you make me a cartoon map based on the attached image. I like the vibe of this I,age but California produces the most almonds, so the big almond should be standing on or adjacent to California, also, the earth isn’t flat as this image shows. I’d prefer a 3d looking globe. Big almond over California on the left side of the globe, little almond on the right. Same text please. Can you help make this image better for me? Thank you!