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Lego cartograms show immigration and migration
LEGOs were my favorite toy growing up. This was back when the pieces came in buckets rather than the instruction-filled Star Wars sets that we see nowadays, so it was more about building whatever...
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Members Only: Mapping with Diffusion-based Cartograms
Sometimes these cartograms can distort areas beyond recognition, but they can also provide a better visual representation for a region with a wide range of subregions. At the least, they're fun to look...
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Evolution of western dance music
A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture and blend of various styles and cultures over time. To make it easier to trace the threads of music history, we’ve created an...
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Flooding risk cartogram
As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it other effects besides our average days getting warmer. Flooding is one of these other things. Based on data from research by Climate...
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Elemental cartograms
Along the same lines as the scaled Periodic Table, Elemental Cartograms by chemistry professor Babak Sanii and his students lets you make your own scaled Periodic Table of Elements. Simply edit the...
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Make your own tiled cartograms
A challenge of using geographic maps to show data is that larger regions inevitably get more visual real estate. Cartograms try to solve this problem by sizing regions by the data instead of land mass....
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Tilegrams in R
Last month Pitch Interactive launched an online tool for tiled cartograms, or tilegrams for short. Upload your state-by-state data, and it does the rest. Now you can make them in R, thanks to Bhaskar...
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