I’m kind of on a cartogram kick lately. I’m interested in the pioneers of the form, those who first thought to distort borders and explode topologies in order to convey the distribution of some thematic variable. When was the first cartogram produced, where, and by whom? I ran into a lot of [...]
posts tagged 'cartograms'
Dec 04 2008
noncontiguous area cartograms
notes on noncontiguous cartograms and ActionScript 3 classes for producing them
Fully contiguous cartograms have stretched and distorted borders but perfectly maintained topologies. Like the Gastner-Newman diffusion-based cartograms we see all over the place. Though all sorts of cartogram designs have been produced, those with perfect topology preservation (fully contiguous cartograms) receive the majority of [...]
Mar 25 2008
free cartograms
I’m quite interested in cartograms, and my thesis — for which I begin user testing this week — concerns their effectiveness across varying designs. Cartograms have never been easy to make, and until recently were largely produced only in university computer science or cartography departments. Now, though, a few applications manage to free [...]