Michael Gastner

[Submitted on 9 Jan 2022 ( v1 ), last revised 11 May 2023 (this version, v2)] Title:Effectiveness of Area-to-Value Legends and Grid Lines in Contiguous Area Cartograms Download a PDF of the paper titled Effectiveness of Area-to-Value Legends and Grid Lines in Contiguous Area Cartograms, by Kelvin L. T.

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Michael T. Gastner , Károly Takács, Máté Gulyás, Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky, Beáta Oborny Michael T. Gastner, Károly Takács, Máté Gulyás, Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky, Beáta Oborny Published: June 26, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218729 Figures Abstract Humans have a demonstrated tendency to copy or imitate the behavior and attitude of others and actively influence each other’s opinions.

Abstract Map makers have for many years searched for a way to construct cartograms, maps in which the sizes of geographic regions such as countries or provinces appear in proportion to their population or some other analogous property. Such maps are invaluable for the representation of census results, election returns, disease incidence, and many other kinds of human data.