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What are cartograms?

What are cartograms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of cartogram
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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.

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