Map of Interest #...I Forget

This week's map of interest is a map created by by Soon-Hyung Yook, Hawoong Jeong, and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi at the University of Notre Dame as part of their research in the network structure of the Internet.

It illustrates that there is really not much correlation between density of routers in an area and density of population. On the other hand, it does show that where there are lots of routers, there are lots of people. The color scheme is effective, as the darker and redder colors show where the densities are highest. The map probably could have used some country boundaries, though, to help illustrate exactly which countries have the densest populations and the most routers. Additionally, the map's "projection" is geographic, which really means that it is unprojected. An equal area projection would have been more suitable for this kind of map as density calculations are based upon area.

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