• "spike maps" for population

    From Rich Ulrich@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 11:27:54 2025
    Here is a style of data presentation that has been used
    occasionally, but the particular application, to population, is great. Efficient and effective communication by pictures or graphs
    was the topic of a few statistics books, a few decades back.
    (E.g. -- Visualizing Data; William S. Cleveland.)

    Maps are an interesting sub-topic.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/spike-maps-world-population-clusters-b2136100.html



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    Rich Ulrich

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  • From David Jones@21:1/5 to Rich Ulrich on Tue Mar 18 20:16:48 2025
    Rich Ulrich wrote:

    Here is a style of data presentation that has been used
    occasionally, but the particular application, to population, is great. Efficient and effective communication by pictures or graphs
    was the topic of a few statistics books, a few decades back.
    (E.g. -- Visualizing Data; William S. Cleveland.)

    Maps are an interesting sub-topic.


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/spike-maps-world-population-clusters-b2136100.html


    Computer programs of the last 20 years make such things accessible. Specifically on maps, the following book is a little too early for such
    an approach, but does provide a wide range of display techniques. It
    has a chapter titled "computer mapping" which might have been added to
    the the first edition of 1963.

    "Statistical mapping and the presentation of statistics", 2nd edition,
    1971, G.C. Dickinson, publ by Edward Arnold, London

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