Population overlays on choropleths

Surimpression de population sur choroplèthes

Lonni Besançon (1) , Matthew Cooper (1) , Anders Ynnerman (1) , Frédéric Vernier (2, 3)

1 LIU - Linköping University
2 AMI - Architectures et Modèles pour l'Interaction
3 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization

Population information is nowadays available at fine scales and almost always missing from classical choropleth maps. We implemented five techniques to overlay fine-scaled population information on choropleth maps and present the results of an evaluation of three of them. Our results suggest that such overlays do not hinder the understanding of choropleth maps and can help understand the distribution of population on maps, thus possibly avoiding the common pitfalls of choropleth maps.

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Lonni Besançon, Matthew Cooper, Anders Ynnerman, Frédéric Vernier. Surimpression de population sur choroplèthes. Journée Visu 2019, May 2019, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02130444⟩