It presents a series of Aon Benfield cartogram maps illustrating global demographic concentrations for population, GDP, wealth and insurance penetration. |
The new map created uses a gridded population cartogram, with each grid cell sized according to the number of people who live there. |
Scroll down to Antonio Scarponi's cartogram of web citizens, where area on the map is proportional to number of users. |
With the aid of a colour copier he managed to make a few copies of the cartogram. |
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. |
Stephen North and colleagues have developed methods for computing cartograms and I used their approach to create a cartogram of the election results. |