Friday, December 3, 2010

Cartogram

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0110/cartograms.html
Cartograms are a very useful tool of perspective. This projection manipulates the size of an area to display the significance of a variable. In this case, countries bulge and shrink accordingly to the population of the areas within them. This speaks volumes when we look at shriveled masses of the Americas in comparison to those of Asia.

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