Oh boy, mapping porn!. I just love this stuff! It is so very very hard to make reasonably visualizations of how data is distributed, particularly when that distribution is as skew’d as data typically is. I’ve written about the method used here before.
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The concept is very old, of course. The earliest popular treatment I can recall was Michael Crichton‘s in The Andromeda Strain.