Map of a Different Color

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Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan, has a new spin on an old map. He created a program to make cartograms--maps in which the states are drawn with their size proportional to population, not acreage. His latest cartograms describe voting in the 2008 presidential election. Find out what they show about voting trends. Images courtesy of Mark Newman, University of Michigan. Music from Prelinger Archives. Produced by Flora Lichtman.. Viewed 16353 times.

Related links: Mark Newman's Election Maps
Mark Newman: The Atlas of the Real World

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