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Carbon atlas cartogram

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Carbon atlas cartogram
Cartograms are distorted maps, where the geographic areas represent data values, but retain (at least some) similarity in shape to the original map. The Cartogram above shows each country of the world, with the circle size representing annual carbon emissions, the World graphic at the top-right used to establish colours used for continents, and the bar-chart and table at the bottom showing data values in ranked order.
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Source:
Mark McCormick, The Guardian (Dec 15th, 2007) (News)
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf
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