Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Cartogram

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/types.html

A Cartogram is a type of map that represents data by skewing the actual landscape of the map.  For example, a map depicting population over an area, may skew the areas of higher population to a larger proportion in comparison to its actual scaled size.  Here is an example of a cartogram representing populations in California.

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