TY  - JOUR
AU  - Porporato, Chiara 
AU  - Bellone, Tamara 
AU  - Fiermonte, Francesco 
PY  - 2016
TI  - Anamorphic Cartograms and Environmental Risk Analysis
JF  - American Journal of Environmental Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 6
DO  - 10.3844/ajessp.2016.379.390
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajessp.2016.379.390
AB  - Both Geography and Statistics use graphical representations. Information Technology has enhanced the visualization of data, beyond the traditional aspects, to such an extent that we can nowadays speak of an "image society". Traditional thematic mapping also shows transformations of a variable over time, linking the geographical datum to the time variable. For some decades now a number of cartograms have been in use, for which the base area is displaced as a function of a particular factor, these are known as anamorphic cartograms. An anamorphic map is easier to read and may give an overview of a geographic whole.