Map Projections by Jason Davies.
If you are interested in map projections or D3, this page is a real delight!
Jason has draggable examples of:
Along with various demonstrations:
OK, one image to whet your appetite!
Follow the image to its homepage, then drag the image. I think you will be pleased.
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Simon St. Laurent tweeted a link to: Maps of the 2012 US presidential election results by M. E. J. Newman.
Newman used cartograms to create presentations of the 2012 U.S. presidential election results. (Cartograms substitute another variable for land area in the presentation.)
Newman’s maps correct the distortion that has most of the U.S. colored “red,” when in fact the “blue” candidate, Obama, carried both the popular and electorial vote.
I don’t recall any topic map display that I would call cartograms. You?
Leaving aside a cartogram applied to a geographic map as an interface to a topic map, how else to apply cartograms to a topic map?
Depends on the characteristics of the topics but are there general principles? Even for classes of characteristics?
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Insisting on beautiful maps by Nathan Yau.
Nathan calls our attention to the publication of:
the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society,….
Definitely be on the short list of books for the holiday season!
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Bed Cartography from Nathan Yau.
It had to happen. Cartography has spread to the bedroom.
Can graphs be far behind? 
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You have to choose categories from the left-hand menu to see any content.
A wide variety of content, some of which may be familiar, some of which may not be.
I was particularly amused by the “Center of the World” map. Look for New York and you will find it.
To me it explains why 9/11 retains currency while the poisoning of a large area in Japan with radiation has slipped from view, at least in the United States. (To pick only one event that merits more informed coverage and attention that it has gotten in the United States.)
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