Cartograms (Visuale)

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Cartograms

Nice quote about the unfamiliarity of cartograms here:

Their main disadvantage is that they are unfamiliar, but we do not learn from familiarity

Here is a nice one depicting US elections:

What is a cartogram? In the author's words:

The basic idea is to distort a map by resizing its regions according to a statistical parameter, but in a way that keeps the map recognizable.

More info here.

Posted by Enrico Bertini on October 6, 2006 1:20 AM | Permalink

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