thinkingmachines/cartogramph

Alternative map visualization tool of the Philippines for anyone to use

cartogramph's Issues

Disregarding Laguna Lake

Noticed that at several points, the code is checking if the Name is "Laguna Lake". Perhaps we can remove that data point at the beginning?

Overlapping cities in metro manila

Area tiles are overlapping in Metro Manila for all cartogram types. Didn't we decide to make Metro Manila one giant block instead of multiple cities?

http://stories.thinkingmachin.es/cartogram/

Add a voronoi grid on hover tooltip to improve UX

Difficult to hover over small islands/areas to see stats. The way it works right now, a user has to hover over the actual rect element to see the tooltip. This is not ideal for small 5x5 rects like Batanas. Suggested improvement, instead over tooltip when mouseover the rect, tooltip when mouseover a voronoi grid overlaying the entire canvas.

See here for example: http://www.visualcinnamon.com/2015/07/voronoi.html

Input data format

I don't think it's mentioned anywhere what the format/columns are for the CSVs used by the script. Can we add a spec description in the README, and/or a sample file in the repo?

lib folder usage?

If the purpose is to have a library squared away somewhere separate, I highly recommend not including the hardcoded data variables because those are currently broken.

var GEODATA = "/static/data/philippines-topo2.json"; //link to the map json source file
var THEMATIC = "/static/data/philpopulation2015.csv"; //link to population data
var THEMATICCOL = "pop2015"; //thematic variable
var THEMATICLAB = "Population"; //label

rethink "thematic" and "sequential"

"Thematic" is incredibly confusing to me. I can't figure out what a thematic cartogram is, and even after reading the post, I can't remember what it's supposed to be. Can we rename to something more direct and memorable? On the same topic, "sequential" only makes sense if you know what a sequential palette is, which most people don't.

Some suggestions for "thematic":

1. CustomVariable

Some suggestions for "sequential":

1. Heatmap
2. Cloropleth

Random Numbers cartogram looks too similar to all other cartograms

Don't make it random. Weight the southern provinces heavily and lighten the northern provinces so people can see what that with just a simple data update, this cartogram could look very different.

Create a combined thematic+sequential type

Given that makecartogram() takes in both thematic and sequential data, would it be technically easy to do a 2-in-1 chart where you can have two custom data sources to map in comparison to each other?

Like Schools per province vs. Literacy Rate, should be strongly related but maybe there's a visually large province that's unexpectedly light in color.