Sunday, April 18, 2010

Cartogram


A cartogram is a type of thematic map where some other variable, such as population, is subsititued for land area. This can normally form some very odd looking map, but it does afford the reader a very real look at how the variable is represented (sometimes very disproportionately to the land area). Here the area has been substitued for popular votes in a recent presidential election.

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