Maps that Matter

Worldmapper cartograms of social and economic statistics

Date: 2004 - ongoing

Creators: Danny Dorling and co-workers

(Wealth Year 2015)

(Human Poverty)

• Mark Newman and Michael Gastner published a novel software algorithm to efficiently generate an equal area cartogram in 2004.
• Danny Dorling and co-workers at Sheffield University deployed this algorithm and applied it to publicly available national-level datasets from 2004. Published online from www.worldmapper.org and also available as pdf posters, the mapping represents values by areas but preserves the aesthetics of relative geographic position in striking images depicting global inequalities.
  

Newman and Gastner Cartograms

U.S. 2004 Presidential Election

(Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election.)