@inproceedings{83af7846489943f3acf251108bc8e1b5,
title = "Cartograms, self-organizing maps, and magnification control",
abstract = "This paper presents a simple way to compensate the magnification effect of Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) when creating cartograms using Carto-SOM. It starts with a brief explanation of what a cartogram is, how it can be used, and what sort of metrics can be used to assess its quality. The methodology for creating a cartogram with a SOM is then presented together with an explanation of how the magnification effect can be compensated in this case by pre-processing the data. Examples of cartograms produced with this method are given, concluding that Self-Organizing Maps can be used to produce high quality cartograms, even using only standard software implemen-tations of SOM.",
keywords = "Cartograms, Magnification effect, Self-organizing maps",
author = "Roberto Henriques and Fernando Ba{\c c}{\~a}o and Victor Lobo",
year = "2009",
month = aug,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-02397-2_11",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-02396-5",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "89--97",
editor = "Pr{\'i}ncipe, {Jos{\'e} C.} and Miikkulainen, {Risto }",
booktitle = "Advances in Self-Organizing Maps",
address = "Netherlands",
note = "7th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, WSOM 2009 ; Conference date: 08-06-2009 Through 10-06-2009",
}