The phrase "map the distribution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the process of locating, plotting, and displaying data or information on a map. For example, "We used GIS software to map the distribution of natural resources in the region."
This thermal radio radiation enables astronomers to map the distribution of H II regions in distant parts of the Galaxy.
Let's take a theoretical example to demonstrate this: Say we wanted to map the distribution of Mo in a sample of Ti 6246 alloy.
Conventional rock magnetometers deal with bulk properties of samples, whereas scanning microscope can map the distribution of remanent magnetization.
Another technique will take measurements of hundreds of millions of galaxies and use tiny distortions to attempt to map the distribution of dark matter.
"If you map the distribution of scores for verbal skills of boys and of girls, you get two graphs that overlap so much you would need a very fine pencil indeed to show the difference between them.
Several companies have pioneered the art of using cell phones to map the distribution of informal shops (spaza) and truck stops.
An earlier post in this series described the efforts of the Coast Survey to map the distribution of slavery across the South in the summer of 1861.
"What we hope to be able to do is map the distribution of images on the ceiling and all of the activities of the time," he said.
Step-changes in the absorption spectrum signify the position of absorption edges, which can be used to map the distribution of chemical elements inside the object with micron scale resolution.
With lensing, astronomers are beginning to find and map the distribution of some of the missing mass -- the unknown and invisible dark matter that shapes the universe and probably controls its ultimate fate.
To map the distribution of DNA supercoiling in nuclei, we developed biotinylated 4,5,8-trimethylpsoralen (bTMP) pull-down to preferentially enrich for under-wound DNA.
