It’s World AIDS day. Last week, UNAIDS published their latest data on people living with HIV. And I felt compelled to try a more realistic view of the world: a cartogram.
I will not break it down further, as it’s perfectly explained here.
1st try: A Dorling cartogram
2nd try: A Demers cartogram
3rd try: A sometimes called rectangular cartogram
The final version
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Cartograms Show AIDS Around the World | FlowingData commented this on Dec 07 09, at 8:55 am[...] estimates on the number of people around the world who are living with HIV. Xaquin G.V. provides four cartograms (i.e. value-aread maps) to show the numbers. In the final result (above) each square represents [...]
HIVカルトグラム » 経済学101 commented this on Dec 07 09, at 12:31 pm[...] xocas.com information graphics » Blog Archive » World AIDS Day [...]
Geographic breakdown of AIDS by Xaquín. via FlowingData — Some Random Dude commented this on Dec 07 09, at 7:30 pm[...] breakdown of AIDS by Xaquín. via [...]
The Geography of AIDS Around the World « Earth to Bobby commented this on Dec 08 09, at 5:05 am[...] estimates on the number of people around the world who are living with HIV. Xaquin G.V. provides four cartograms (i.e. value-aread maps) to show the numbers. In the final result (above) each square represents [...]
A world map of AIDS : Contrarian commented this on Dec 08 09, at 3:21 pm[...] of the number of people living with AIDS around the world, and Xaquin G.V. turned the data into a cartogram, or a value-aread [...]
Tom comentó esto el Dec 02 09 en 9:05 amThe final result is great(as always).
It would be interesting to know how you made these? Manually in Illustrator?
xocas comentó esto el Dec 02 09 en 2:46 pmYeah, sadly for this kind of maps there’s no algorithm to make it automatically. I have my own weird technique which isn’t probably the most recommended one, but it works fine for me.
Tom comentó esto el Dec 02 09 en 10:56 pmGood to hear you’re not superhuman after all
JB comentó esto el Dec 11 09 en 3:18 pmCould I use this cartogram in a report I’m writing?
Ari comentó esto el Dec 11 09 en 4:13 pmGreat map, but the white middle section is not showing up on the white background—a gray or otherwise colored background would be great.
xocas comentó esto el Dec 11 09 en 6:22 pm@Ari Did you turn down the brightness of your screen? Just kidding. You’re probably right. In CMYK was 4/8/16/0 which is light but prints fine. In hexadecimal is #F3E6D3 which may be too light for some displays.
