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Area scaling is wonky

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#3 opened on Dec 5, 2012

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Description

Currently I'm scaling state values linearly from 1 to 1000, which seems unnecessarily arbitrary. A linear scale of 0 to 1 doesn't work either, but in theory it should because the area scaling is linear.

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Examine the linear scaling code in index.html (lines 329-332) to understand why scaling from 0 to 1 does not produce correct area sizes. Check the cartogram algorithm's use of state values and consider if a different scaling approach (e.g., using a domain derived from the data range) would be appropriate.
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javascript
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data visualizationfrontend
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