Friday, November 19, 2004

The Shape of Things


You've seen plenty of red-state/blue-state maps by now. But Michal Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman of the University of Michigan put all that in perspective with several cartograms that show the country as a pretty evenly divided "purple."

This cartogram from their site is by Robert J. Vanderbei at Princeton.
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