Diagram: Dorling cartogram — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

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Dorling cartogram

Cartogram where each unit becomes a proportional circle.

cartogramme de Dorling

aussi : cartogramme géométrique

Cartogramme où chaque unité devient un cercle proportionnel.

Classification

map
maps › cartograms
spatial
the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

French term: Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 25 papers since 2012, 40% in the last five years; mostly in Computer Science, Social Sciences

Seminal references

invention (1996) Dorling (1996). Area cartograms: their use and creation. Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography 59; Wikipedia in English

R packages

R cartogram::cartogram_dorling(); GitHub 153 stars; last commit 2025-05

Sources (13)

36 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books

Show the 13 sources

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dorling-map.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Dorling cartogram. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dorling-map.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-dorling-map,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {Dorling cartogram},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dorling-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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