Cartograms are useful ways of mapping data as they allow you to distort for population size or other factors while still maintaining the rough shape of your geography – we used one for our UK election map. |
To visualize the data the research team created maps called cartograms, in which the sizes of states are based on the number of Twitter messages originating from them. |
Fascinating cartograms of the election results can be found at this site. |
No.1 Cartographic records also include other thematic map series, cartograms and scale models. |
An area cartogram, one of the most familiar cartograms, is a transformed map on which the areas of regions are proportional to the data values. |
Cosma Shalizi has put together a wonderful compilation of electoral college maps and cartograms. |