As an Earth scientist I live and breath maps. I recently came across the site Worldmapper, which has nearly 400 global cartograms of various metrics. A cartogram is basically a map that shows area ...
GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Feb 27, 2015 at 12:15 ...
Cartogram visualisation has undergone substantial evolution, merging geographic representation with quantitative data display. At its core, a cartogram resizes regions such that their areas are ...
One of the loudest topics I’ve found in Minnesota political circles is the question of tensions between the Twin Cities metro area and “Greater Minnesota.” Some people are playing up the idea of a ...
GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Aug 24, 2015 at ...
I live on county maps. They offer an accessible, yet incredibly rich way to understand the diversity of our country. But they’re also imperfect. An unfamiliar eye might draw the wrong lessons, like ...
A cartogram set that visualizes the risks of climate change due to decreases of renewable groundwater resources. The degree of climate change hazard (a decrease in groundwater resources by more than ...
Every map makes compromises. The Mercator projection, which sacrifices accurate geography for nice, straight lines, is a classic example. Electoral cartograms, which visualize the political climates ...