Effectiveness of Area-to-Value Legends and Grid Lines in Contiguous Area Cartograms

A contiguous area cartogram is a geographic map in which the area of each region is proportional to numerical data (e.g., population size) while keeping neighboring regions connected. In this study, we investigated whether value-to-area legends (square symbols next to the values represented by the s...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 30(2024), 8 vom: 26. Aug., Seite 4631-4647
1. Verfasser: Fung, Kelvin L T (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Perrault, Simon T, Gastner, Michael T
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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