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.
