• Login
    View Item 
    •   Eurographics DL Home
    • Computer Graphics Forum
    • Volume 34 (2015)
    • 34-Issue 3
    • View Item
    •   Eurographics DL Home
    • Computer Graphics Forum
    • Volume 34 (2015)
    • 34-Issue 3
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Quantitative Measures for Cartogram Generation Techniques

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    v34i3pp351-360.pdf (963.3Kb)
    Date
    2015
    Author
    Alam, Md. Jawaherul
    Kobourov, Stephen G.
    Veeramoni, Sankar
    Pay-Per-View via TIB Hannover:

    Try if this item/paper is available.

    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Cartograms are used to visualize geographically distributed data by scaling the regions of a map (e.g., US states) such that their areas are proportional to some data associated with them (e.g., population). Thus the cartogram computation problem can be considered as a map deformation problem where the input is a planar polygonal map M and an assignment of some positive weight for each region. The goal is to create a deformed map M0, where the area of each region realizes the weight assigned to it (no cartographic error) while the overall map remains readable and recognizable (e.g., the topology, relative positions and shapes of the regions remain as close to those before the deformation as possible). Although several such measures of cartogram quality are well-known, different cartogram generation methods optimize different features and there is no standard set of quantitative metrics. In this paper we define such a set of seven quantitative measures, designed to evaluate how faithfully a cartogram represents the desired weights and to estimate the readability of the final representation. We then study several cartogram-generation algorithms and compare them in terms of these quantitative measures.
    BibTeX
    @article {10.1111:cgf.12647,
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
    title = {{Quantitative Measures for Cartogram Generation Techniques}},
    author = {Alam, Md. Jawaherul and Kobourov, Stephen G. and Veeramoni, Sankar},
    year = {2015},
    publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
    DOI = {10.1111/cgf.12647}
    }
    URI
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12647
    Collections
    • 34-Issue 3
    • EuroVis15: Eurographics Conference on Visualization

    Eurographics Association copyright © 2013 - 2022 
    Send Feedback | Contact - Imprint | Data Privacy Policy | Disable Google Analytics
    Theme by @mire NV
    System hosted at  Graz University of Technology.
    TUGFhA
     

     

    Browse

    All of Eurographics DLCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    BibTeX | TOC

    Create BibTeX Create Table of Contents

    Eurographics Association copyright © 2013 - 2022 
    Send Feedback | Contact - Imprint | Data Privacy Policy | Disable Google Analytics
    Theme by @mire NV
    System hosted at  Graz University of Technology.
    TUGFhA