Tag Archives: Cartogram

UK Unemployment in R

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Alistair Leak

The  country is bleeding. This title was first used on the flowing data Blog when displaying unemployment figures in the United States (available http://goo.gl/iMnH2). In the case of the flowing data map the unemployment data is displayed on a standard projection of the … Continue reading →

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Zombie map of the world.

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Alistair Leak

Mapping Zombies… Though not the first idea that comes to mind when considering the power of Google. This map highlights some of the potential of the service. The map was created by Dr Mark Graham, Taylor Shelton, Monica Stephens and Matthew Zook of the … Continue reading →

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Creating Cartograms in QuantumGIS

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Alistair Leak

Throughout my education, cartograms have been one of my favorite forms of cartographic visualization. Cartograms work on the principle of deforming data based upon an external factor. In the first example, the boroughs of London have been altered based upon the mean equivalent income. … Continue reading →

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