Monday, April 14, 2014

Cartogram

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/

Cartograms are maps that take a thematic variable and distort the geometric area of boundaries on the map to demonstrate the quantity of that variable. Some common thematic variables include population, such as shown on the map above, oil, voting, GDP, or debt. Notice that the countries with a larger population are expanded dramatically larger.

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