Cambay, at the mouth of the river Mali, was an ancient port for the city of Ahmadabad. Cambay is situated to the north of Surat on the coast of Gujarat. The image is inscribed with a scale and pencil notes. Give us a call to see how our work can help you make sense of your data, tell a better story with it and make decisions that are backed by robust analysis.Map of the coast between Cambay and Surat Watercolour with pen, pencil and ink by an anonymous artist of a map of the coast between Cambay and Surat dated sometime between 17. The data used in this visuals relates to elections, but the techniques used are equally useful for business, government and humanitarian purposes. The geographical maps are just a part of what we do to analyse and make sense of information and gain valuable, actionable insights. The possibilities of displaying various types of information in an engaging way always excites us here at Proneta. Let us know your thoughts about how these four methods of visualization reveal or ignore important information. We have started rolling out the maps in our analysis for news and political consultants. In the constituencies where it won, the constituency numbers are rounded. Here is one showing the vote share of Shivsena. Here is the maps which shows which party won. WhatвЂ™s more it works excellently both for categorical indicators like Winning Party as well as for numerical variable like vote share. This Cartogram has equal sizes for all constituencies, most of the adjacency of the places is maintained and there are no weirdly extruded shapes (a sign of gerrymandering, but more on that in another post). We put constituencies that are near each other like Lego blocks and with a lot of hacking and tinkering, we had the first ever, methodical cartogram of MaharahstraвЂ™s Assembly Constituencies. Just like the heart symbol that shows the very complicated organ in our body, we decided to represent each constituency with three squares only. It can be useful to show the vote share of a party at various places.Д«ut then we decided to go fully abstract. We also tried the taking centroids of the areas of the cartogram. The sizes of constituencies are not exactly equal, but they are comparable. A slight problem is it distorts the geographic boundaries and may not be aesthetically appealing. It also shows the impact that Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur city had on the BJP-ShivsenaвЂ™s lead. This Map actually gives a better representation of the relative importance of constituencies and of their relative location. The programs to create cartograms keep the shape of the constituency similar and change the size. So, we thought letвЂ™s get a cartogram of Maharashtra where each constituency is sized equally. Here is the map where all countries are sized by their Population. This idea was recently made popular with PeterвЂ™s Projection and вЂњthe true size ofвЂќ site which lets us compare land sizes of countries вЂ“ and which shares cartograms for the world map. A cartogram is a map that changes the shape of a geographical feature in proportion with a certain parameter. The first and obvious set of ideas was developing a cartogram. So, our research team in Proneta tried a few different combinations to visualize all the 288 constituencies, so as to give every one of them equal importance in a map. Giving more than 2 blowouts actually defeats the purpose. The problem specific to Maharashtra is that there are multiple urban centres with 4+ constituencies. The normal remedy to this problem has been to give a blowout of Urban Areas on side. Actually it is the urban areas that have given huge boost to BJP. Also, it is likely to give an impression that the Eastern Maharashtra i.e. Therefore, at first glance, it is easy to underestimate the 122+63=186 out of 288 number of seats (65%) that BJP and Shivsena hold together. As a matter of fact, a single Gadchiroli constituency occupies more space than the constituencies in urban areas like Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur, Pune taken together (92 constituencies). As a result the urban areas (like Mumbai/Pune) are represented by a small blot whereas sparsely populated constituencies like Chandrapur will take up large area. Being area dependant visualization, it emphasizes constituencies with large areas and reduces the impact of small constituencies. This gives us a maps which are like this.Д«ut there is a serious flaw in this representation. In a chlorepleth the geographical area of a constituency is highlighted in a colour representing the party which won there. Most of the news channels and analysts use the simple method of chlorepleth. There are multiple ways of showing which political party has influence in which area. Maharashtra Legislative Assembly has 288 seats. With highest GDP in India(14% of total), and the financial capital Mumbai at stake its also politically very important state. Maharashtra is the state of India with economy comparable to Norway, and population comparable to 4 Australias.

Map of maharashtra state