Animated Population Cartograms

In Dec Engaging Data created an interesting animated map to exhibit the 'true size' of countries or then the world. The Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection map allows y'all to switch betwixt countries equally they look using the Mercator projection in addition to their 'true size'.

Engaging Data has straight off created a like map which scales each U.S. province past times the size of its population. Press the 'Click to Show Population Size' push on the Scaling the Physical Size of States to Reflect Population map in addition to each province on the maps shrinks to effectively practise a cartogram of the U.S. where the size of each province relates to their relative populations. Each of the states are too colored to reverberate the size of the state's population. The final result is thus a choropleth cartogram. Just click on the 'Click to Show Physical Size' push to switch dorsum to the choropleth map view.

If y'all click on a province on the map y'all tin dismiss stance the state's actual population. You tin dismiss too stance how much the novel size of the province is equally a percent of the state's master copy size on the map. This figure gives y'all an indication of how densely or sparsely populated a province is. For example, the re-scaled Alaska is only 0.1% of its master copy size. This is because the province is real large in addition to has a relatively modest population. New Bailiwick of Jersey on the other mitt remains the same size (100% of its master copy size), reflecting that it is America's or then densely populated state.