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lordnacho on July 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land...

How does the transformation work? It must be something that keeps the same borders regardless of what numbers you put in.

maxerickson on July 8, 2015 [–]

It's up to the producer what properties of the original map are preserved. Wikipedia seems reasonable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram

(Note especially the table of algorithms)

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