Map THIS

Resilience Science points to a new source of cartograms at ShowWorld, a project of Mapping Worlds. These maps, which display a metric by manipulating the sizes of the various countries displayed, are a wonderful way to bring boring old data to life, and an even better way to fill an empty hour or two. What I really want, though, is a way to mash two data sources. Resilience Sciences selects carbon dioxide emissions and pig populations. Great, and just looking at the maps I have a strong impression that there’s no correlation between number of pigs and carbon dioxide emitted. But is that really true? Enquiring minds want to know. Some genius should figure out a way of doing x per y in a cartogram.

Here, though, we have Wine and Cheese, which were meant to go together, and more or less do, which is nice.

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4 Replies to “Map THIS”

  1. Interesting. I guess France would come out top of any league table of number of different cheeses produced in a country, but I bet that any decent London cheese shop will have a much greater diversity on offer than anywhere in Paris.

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