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True area is thrown away and each region is resized by the count that matters, whether that is households or hours or dollars. Shapes distort and stay recognizable enough to find. What was a whisper becomes the biggest shape on the page. You give up any read on real geography, which is exactly the trade you want when land area was never the point.

True area is thrown away and each region is resized by the count that matters, whether that is households or hours or dollars. Shapes distort and stay recognizable enough to find. What was a whisper becomes the biggest shape on the page. You give up any read on real geography, which is exactly the trade you want when land area was never the point.

Example

Best when counts sit in regions of wildly different size and the small dense ones keep disappearing.