{"id":858,"date":"2010-04-07T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/departments\/sal\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:25:41","slug":"cartograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2010\/04\/07\/cartograms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartograms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>cartogram<\/strong> is a thematic map in which some variable (e.g. population)\u00a0 is substituted for land area.\u00a0 The alternate variable is conveyed through a distorted geometry\u00a0 of the map.\u00a0 This example displays the state origins of the Smith Class of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/december2008med.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2039\" title=\"December 2008 Mystery Map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/december2008med-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 2008 Mystery Map displaying class of 2012 as a cartogram<\/p>\n<p>View as a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/mysterymap\/Dec2008\/December2008MysteryMap.kmz\"> Google Earth File<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cartogram is a thematic map in which some variable (e.g. population)\u00a0 is substituted for land area.\u00a0 The alternate variable is conveyed through a distorted geometry\u00a0 of the map.\u00a0 This&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/sal\/2010\/04\/07\/cartograms\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cartograms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,171],"tags":[48,95],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartography","category-mystery-map","category-portfolio-mystery-map","tag-cartography","tag-mystery-map"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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