I've written up a blog post about v1.0 of a 2023 constituency hex layout and how you can help improve it https://open-innovations.org/blog/2023-08-03-hexes-for-the-next-general-election
#hex #hexmap #cartogram

Adding two more #Stata #cartogram #maps for the #USA. The geography is based on the #NYTimes version.

Data is extracted from the #ACS 2021 population estimates using the #getcensus package. Right map uses the new version of #bimap.

Today I learned a new #rstats package: #cartogram . This allows creation of Dorling cartograms (non-overlapping bubbles).

It's using the same 2020 presidential election county-level databased I created merging MIT Election Lab data with #tidycensus -derived files from the #census2020

The California Dorling plot is better by showing non-overlapping circles, especially in the Bay Area.

The Texas Dorling plot shows Harris County (Houston) nudged into the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas County and Travis County (Austin) have pushed (repelled) the little red bubbles to be more prominent.

All maps were created with the #tidyverse package #ggplot2

This is a lot of fun, for me, at least!

Sur ce sujet, une question en particulier : comment représenter visuellement la répartition entre continents en se détachant un peu de la géographie, sans la perdre ? Ce qui a donné, à gauche, une infographie réalisée avec Illustrator par notre service infographie. A droite, une version animée réalisée grâce au package assez magique {cartogram} #cartogram #gganimate [3/8]

And I had to look up #cartogram, I knew the concept but not the right term. #TIL

Finally! #NewYorkTimes showing #USElection results in a #cartogram, not skewed by empty land that doesn't vote. #maps

RT @julgaf
C'est prêt ! Voilà la #carte des résultats de #Presidentielles2022 entre #LePen et #Macron au niveau des communes, #dorling #cartogram #cartography #observablehq
https://tinyurl.com/32t9y4ub

Plastiquement, on dirait du Moebius non? je crois que c'est pas mal dû aux couleurs.
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RT @julgaf
C'est prêt ! Voilà la #carte des résultats de #Presidentielles2022 entre #LePen et #Macron au niveau des communes, #dorling #cartogram #cartography #observablehq
https://tinyurl.com/32t9y4ub
https://twitter.com/julgaf/status/1519266310458421248

RT @julgaf@twitter.com

C'est prêt ! Voilà la #carte des résultats de #Presidentielles2022 entre #LePen et #Macron au niveau des communes, #dorling #cartogram #cartography #observablehq
https://tinyurl.com/32t9y4ub

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/julgaf/status/1519266310458421248

#Cartogram of 2020 Presidential election. Counties sized by population while colors indicate vote results. It is helpful in pointing out the old adage that "land doesn't vote, people do."

http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=5777

RT @worldmapper@twitter.com

It's #WorldOceansDay2020: Here is a cartogram of Ocean Chlorophyll Concentration https://worldmapper.org/maps/grid-oceanchlorophyll-2014/ #WorldOceansDay #oceans #sea #water #maps #cartogram #blueplanet

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/worldmapper/status/1269975157533224960

This #cartogram library for R is pretty nifty.
https://github.com/sjewo/cartogram
Just make a shapefile with the appropriate data in @QGIS and voilá! (Bachelor students in the Nordics & Baltics, NUTS2. Of course, non-contiguous cartograms are *a bit* dodgy for irregular regions)