Michael Gastner

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Networks: For our latest work on the Price of Anarchy in networks, click: here.

Electoral map 2004: George W. Bush vs John Kerry. Top: equal area, bottom: equal population density projection

For more information about these maps, click here.

If you are looking for the cartogram code, click here (updated Mar 31, 2005). This code has not been maintained in years. If you are seriously interested in making your own cartograms, try the code by Mark Newman. I am still interested in user feedback so that I can create a more user-friendly solution in the future.

A Windows executable file based on a previous version was created by Jesse Adams and can be downloaded from his web site. Frank Hardisty implemented a Java version which also runs under Windows.

Articles and Preprints:

Shape and efficiency in spatial distribution networks, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, in press

The spatial structure of networks, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, European Physical Journal B, in press

Density-equalizing map projections: Diffusion-based algorithm and applications, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, GeoComputation 2005, to appear

Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results, M. T. Gastner, C. R. Shalizi, and M. E. J. Newman, Advances in Complex Systems 8, 117-123 (2005)

Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 7499-7504 (2004)

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Email mgastner@santafe.edu