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Sized Points on a Map

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JJCarpenter-WPI
Last edited Oct 9, 2019
Created on Oct 9, 2019

This visualization displays a world map with cities of populations exceeding 50,000, using sized points to represent population magnitude. Natural Earth projection via `d3.geoNaturalEarth1` and `d3.geoPath` render landmasses, graticules, and country interiors from TopoJSON data. Circles are positioned through projection of latitude and longitude coordinates, with radius determined by a square-root scale (`d3.scaleSqrt`) mapping population values to a maximum radius of 15 pixels. The React-based implementation loads city data from a CSV using `d3.csv` and renders all elements as SVG marks.

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A world map showing cities with population greater than 50,000. City data from Simplemaps: World Cities Database.

Country boundaries from World Atlas TopoJSON, polished for visual style, including graticules.

MIT Licensed

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