Visualize 2015 Urban Populations with Proportional Symbols — CartoDB Blog
Proportional symbol maps are used to represent point data that are attached to a specific geographic location (like a city) or data aggregated to a point from an area (like a state). The area of each symbol on the map (usually a circle) is scaled according to its value at a given geographic location using either absolute scaling or range-grading. The result is a map where larger symbols indicate higher values and smaller ones, lower values. This type of map is flexible in that you can represent raw data values (total population) or data that are normalized (percentage of population).
In this blog, I’ll walk through the basic principles of proportional symbols and some best practices when designing them. Then, I’ll cover the steps to make a map of 2015 urban population by country using the absolute scaling method.
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