I don't normally similar cartograms. I notice that the geographical distortions inwards cartograms rapidly Pb to geographical illegibility.
The cartogram above, which compares belongings values betwixt counties across the United States, has shown upwards a lot of late on my Twitter feed. Now if I hadn't told y'all that this was a cartogram of the continental US I bet y'all would accept struggled to set the country.
After ignoring the Tweets almost this cartogram for almost a calendar week I in conclusion decided to click on the accompanying link. It turns out I was beingness really unfair to Metrocosm (the creators of this cartogram). The Metrocosm ship service on housing values across the US includes this animated GIF:
Now the cartogram makes much to a greater extent than sense.
I've been converted. I'm forthwith a fan of cartograms. Or to endure to a greater extent than specific I similar animated cartograms. By merely providing a transition from a regular map projection to a geographically distorted cartogram developers tin easily mitigate against the dangers of geographic intelligibility inherent inwards static cartograms.
Macrocosm accept provided unopen to other example of a cartogram which uses animated transitions betwixt a traditional map projection in addition to a map distorted yesteryear thematic variables. How We Share the World visualizes how the basis is divided according to 6 dissimilar socioeconomic variables.
This interactive map allows y'all to sentiment cartograms of the basis alongside the countries resized based on GDP, Debt, Population, Births, Wealth in addition to the publish of Billionaires. The map includes a non-distorted map view1 which i time again helps to overcome the dangers to geographical legibility inwards the distorted views.
1 terminate beingness clever - y'all know what I mean.
