The election is coming... time to get maps ready! We have both normal maps and our hexmap cartogram available for you as image files, shapefiles, and svg files.
The cartogram can also be found on Datawrapper under USA>>Congressional Districts Elections 2026 (hexmap)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The cartogram can also be found on Datawrapper under USA>>Congressional Districts Elections 2026 (hexmap)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
October 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The election is coming... time to get maps ready! We have both normal maps and our hexmap cartogram available for you as image files, shapefiles, and svg files.
The cartogram can also be found on Datawrapper under USA>>Congressional Districts Elections 2026 (hexmap)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The cartogram can also be found on Datawrapper under USA>>Congressional Districts Elections 2026 (hexmap)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
it'd be cool to see a cartogram like that but morphed over time throughout the war to pick up changes like aircraft production in California.
September 30, 2026 at 4:23 PM
it'd be cool to see a cartogram like that but morphed over time throughout the war to pick up changes like aircraft production in California.
All it could take for the national popular vote compact to reach a majority of electoral votes is for Democrats to flip six legislative chambers across Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
September 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
All it could take for the national popular vote compact to reach a majority of electoral votes is for Democrats to flip six legislative chambers across Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Maybe this is not done because they look kind of ugly. Still seems moderately useful, though.
[Code generated by Claude, plot made in R with the cartogramR package]
[Code generated by Claude, plot made in R with the cartogramR package]
September 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maybe this is not done because they look kind of ugly. Still seems moderately useful, though.
[Code generated by Claude, plot made in R with the cartogramR package]
[Code generated by Claude, plot made in R with the cartogramR package]
A cartogram is a map distorted to be proportional to some property, such as population density. Why don't we use them in oceanography? I've never seen one even for primary productivity, which is concentrated around coasts.
September 28, 2026 at 7:34 AM
A cartogram is a map distorted to be proportional to some property, such as population density. Why don't we use them in oceanography? I've never seen one even for primary productivity, which is concentrated around coasts.
Where Brazil lives. The North is 45% of the land but 9% of the people; the Southeast is 11% of the land and 42% of the people. Equal-area blocks on the real terrain reflow to one block per 250,000 people.
Source: IBGE, Censo 2022
#Brazil #cartogram #dataviz #maps
Source: IBGE, Censo 2022
#Brazil #cartogram #dataviz #maps
September 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Where Brazil lives. The North is 45% of the land but 9% of the people; the Southeast is 11% of the land and 42% of the people. Equal-area blocks on the real terrain reflow to one block per 250,000 people.
Source: IBGE, Censo 2022
#Brazil #cartogram #dataviz #maps
Source: IBGE, Censo 2022
#Brazil #cartogram #dataviz #maps
The central flaw of so many statistical maps:
m.xkcd.com/1138/
For a much better approach to such visualizations, go here
projects.gelliottmorris.com/trump-approv...
Click the "Area" and "Population cartogram" buttons to toggle between two views.
m.xkcd.com/1138/
For a much better approach to such visualizations, go here
projects.gelliottmorris.com/trump-approv...
Click the "Area" and "Population cartogram" buttons to toggle between two views.
xkcd: Heatmap
m.xkcd.com
September 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The central flaw of so many statistical maps:
m.xkcd.com/1138/
For a much better approach to such visualizations, go here
projects.gelliottmorris.com/trump-approv...
Click the "Area" and "Population cartogram" buttons to toggle between two views.
m.xkcd.com/1138/
For a much better approach to such visualizations, go here
projects.gelliottmorris.com/trump-approv...
Click the "Area" and "Population cartogram" buttons to toggle between two views.
Maybe we can create a cartogram-map of the W Social users (now, or after the official launch)?
September 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Maybe we can create a cartogram-map of the W Social users (now, or after the official launch)?
I'll put a more detailed version of this in this week's Poll-Free Calls write-up, but I made a House district cartogram in Google Sheets and color-coded it by how much of the national popular vote shift each district will absorb. Anything orange is below the overall shift, anything green is above
September 22, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I'll put a more detailed version of this in this week's Poll-Free Calls write-up, but I made a House district cartogram in Google Sheets and color-coded it by how much of the national popular vote shift each district will absorb. Anything orange is below the overall shift, anything green is above
messing with animations for my maps and have a fun factoid for you all: for much of the day, people in Bern (urban population approx 130k) can access more people within one hour of travel by public transport - they can get to 19 million people - than people in Paris […]
[Original post on masto.ai]
[Original post on masto.ai]
September 21, 2026 at 7:27 PM
messing with animations for my maps and have a fun factoid for you all: for much of the day, people in Bern (urban population approx 130k) can access more people within one hour of travel by public transport - they can get to 19 million people - than people in Paris […]
[Original post on masto.ai]
[Original post on masto.ai]
Texas, using our 100K Districts and Tabula America Index, but with 2 different shapes. The left is the districts as they normally look, but the right is a cartogram, so every district (of 100,000 people) is the same size.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
September 21, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Texas, using our 100K Districts and Tabula America Index, but with 2 different shapes. The left is the districts as they normally look, but the right is a cartogram, so every district (of 100,000 people) is the same size.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
100K Districts on Tabula America Genus that:
-Are majority-minority
-Are in the bottom 25% percentile in income
In our Cartogram view!
There are areas that had huge swings to Trump in 24, and areas that may swing back hardest to Dems.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
-Are majority-minority
-Are in the bottom 25% percentile in income
In our Cartogram view!
There are areas that had huge swings to Trump in 24, and areas that may swing back hardest to Dems.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
September 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
100K Districts on Tabula America Genus that:
-Are majority-minority
-Are in the bottom 25% percentile in income
In our Cartogram view!
There are areas that had huge swings to Trump in 24, and areas that may swing back hardest to Dems.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
-Are majority-minority
-Are in the bottom 25% percentile in income
In our Cartogram view!
There are areas that had huge swings to Trump in 24, and areas that may swing back hardest to Dems.
LINK: electioncord.com/genus/
The optimal-transport cartogram: world population as a Brenier map. Philipp Bogdan https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14089
September 15, 2026 at 7:11 AM
The optimal-transport cartogram: world population as a Brenier map. Philipp Bogdan https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14089
Philipp Bogdan: The optimal-transport cartogram: world population as a Brenier map https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14089 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14089 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.14089
September 15, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Philipp Bogdan: The optimal-transport cartogram: world population as a Brenier map https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14089 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14089 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.14089
Cartogram observations:
As far as I can tell, of no-coding-required tools only ArcGIS supports Dorling cartograms out of the box, which is odd? Datawrapper has cartograms for the world, US states and German states.
Fun aside: Danny Dorling was only 28 when he published the algorithm in 1996.
As far as I can tell, of no-coding-required tools only ArcGIS supports Dorling cartograms out of the box, which is odd? Datawrapper has cartograms for the world, US states and German states.
Fun aside: Danny Dorling was only 28 when he published the algorithm in 1996.
Chart Snapshot: Dorling Cartograms - DataViz Catalogue Blog
A Cartogram variation where each geographic region is represented by a circle, with the area being proportional to a data value.
datavizcatalogue.com
September 14, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Cartogram observations:
As far as I can tell, of no-coding-required tools only ArcGIS supports Dorling cartograms out of the box, which is odd? Datawrapper has cartograms for the world, US states and German states.
Fun aside: Danny Dorling was only 28 when he published the algorithm in 1996.
As far as I can tell, of no-coding-required tools only ArcGIS supports Dorling cartograms out of the box, which is odd? Datawrapper has cartograms for the world, US states and German states.
Fun aside: Danny Dorling was only 28 when he published the algorithm in 1996.
should probably show all public transport vs just train-like (including ferries which are honorary trains) and the cartograms too
September 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
should probably show all public transport vs just train-like (including ferries which are honorary trains) and the cartograms too
Kudos to the United Nations for doing something in cartography that should’ve been embraced 50 years ago.
Now it’s time to embrace the cartogram over choropleth. Do it cowards.
Now it’s time to embrace the cartogram over choropleth. Do it cowards.
September 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Kudos to the United Nations for doing something in cartography that should’ve been embraced 50 years ago.
Now it’s time to embrace the cartogram over choropleth. Do it cowards.
Now it’s time to embrace the cartogram over choropleth. Do it cowards.
GeoJSON files from my lockdown hobby project still available here
cartogram.dorien.co.uk/diy.php
cartogram.dorien.co.uk/diy.php
World Cartograms
world cartogram
cartogram.dorien.co.uk
September 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
GeoJSON files from my lockdown hobby project still available here
cartogram.dorien.co.uk/diy.php
cartogram.dorien.co.uk/diy.php
Correct-area maps do nothing to solve the problem that big deserted areas like most of Canada, Siberia and Australia completely overwhelm small areas where a lot of people live like Netherlands and Bangladesh. For any form of people-related choropleth, a population cartogram is the only way.
September 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Correct-area maps do nothing to solve the problem that big deserted areas like most of Canada, Siberia and Australia completely overwhelm small areas where a lot of people live like Netherlands and Bangladesh. For any form of people-related choropleth, a population cartogram is the only way.
I think a more interesting map is @electioncord.com 100K districts where Dem votes went down by 1,000 or more from 2016 to 2024. Mapped in cartogram so you can actually figure out where they are.
Here you see a lot more urban areas, just a catastrophic relative turnout/persuasion collapse.
Here you see a lot more urban areas, just a catastrophic relative turnout/persuasion collapse.
September 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I think a more interesting map is @electioncord.com 100K districts where Dem votes went down by 1,000 or more from 2016 to 2024. Mapped in cartogram so you can actually figure out where they are.
Here you see a lot more urban areas, just a catastrophic relative turnout/persuasion collapse.
Here you see a lot more urban areas, just a catastrophic relative turnout/persuasion collapse.
But yeah, my cartogram and old Google Map proposal have diverged, so I deleted. Maybe I'm tired too?
Regardless: Sunset south of park 34 north of park. It's been a few years since I thought about precise alignments beyond "cover the West Side well"
Regardless: Sunset south of park 34 north of park. It's been a few years since I thought about precise alignments beyond "cover the West Side well"
September 3, 2026 at 3:28 AM
But yeah, my cartogram and old Google Map proposal have diverged, so I deleted. Maybe I'm tired too?
Regardless: Sunset south of park 34 north of park. It's been a few years since I thought about precise alignments beyond "cover the West Side well"
Regardless: Sunset south of park 34 north of park. It's been a few years since I thought about precise alignments beyond "cover the West Side well"
Cool -- I don't think I've seen a population cartogram for Japan before.
Population of Japan Visualized
Each square represents 0.1% of the county's population with the 10 biggest Urban areas (with cities) in a lighter color.
Credit: u/KaleyTheKing
Maps for other countries: brilliantmaps.com/visualizi...
Each square represents 0.1% of the county's population with the 10 biggest Urban areas (with cities) in a lighter color.
Credit: u/KaleyTheKing
Maps for other countries: brilliantmaps.com/visualizi...
September 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Cool -- I don't think I've seen a population cartogram for Japan before.
A cartogram resizes countries by population instead of land area, using a 2004 PNAS diffusion algorithm: population acts like a gas spreading to even density, dragging borders along.
A small, crowded country can end up looking bigger than a much larger, emptier one.
youtube.com/@Routero
A small, crowded country can end up looking bigger than a much larger, emptier one.
youtube.com/@Routero
August 30, 2026 at 9:03 PM
A cartogram resizes countries by population instead of land area, using a 2004 PNAS diffusion algorithm: population acts like a gas spreading to even density, dragging borders along.
A small, crowded country can end up looking bigger than a much larger, emptier one.
youtube.com/@Routero
A small, crowded country can end up looking bigger than a much larger, emptier one.
youtube.com/@Routero