County Circles
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Mmbostock
Last edited Feb 9, 2016
Created on Dec 4, 2012
This symbol map displays every U.S. county as a circle centered on its geographic centroid, with the circle’s radius scaled so its area matches the county’s actual land area. The visualization encodes area quantitatively through the circle size, using a stroke-only rendering in steelblue against a white background. The code loads TopoJSON county boundaries from a remote gist, converts them to GeoJSON with `topojson.feature`, and positions each circle via `d3.geo.path().centroid`. Circle radii are computed from `path.area` using the square-root formula for proportional area scaling, all rendered as SVG elements with d3.v3.
AI-generated descriptionThis symbol map encodes the area of each county using a circle at the county's centroid.
gpl-3.0 Licensed