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Posted by Richard Ziade on March 5, 2007, 01:39PM

Cool Distorted World Maps

Here are some cool world maps that have been distorted by superimposing certain statistics to inflate and deflate nations. It's a great example of how much we can communicate very rapidly by displaying data in visually understandable ways.


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They're very cool, but the Daily Mail didn't credit the original source... check out http://www.worldmapper.org/ for loads more.

Posted by: Paul Neave at March 7, 2007 12:59 PM

If this sort of thing intrigues you, I highly recommend keeping your eye on http://infosthetics.com/

Posted by: Douglas Clifton at March 9, 2007 1:46 AM

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