I have a tendency to get into really geeky off-the-wall side projects. Sometimes it's a bit much. I've been staying up late the past few nights tweaking this visualization of immigration data. Now I'm staying up late with other (equally strange and geeky) things and struggling to resist itchy perfectionist urges to keep tweaking!
Immigration to the US, 1820-2007 v2 from Ian Stevenson on Vimeo
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Hi,
I liked this visualization - great start to explaining things to your grandmother, or granddaughter. Just how many people are represented by each colored dot? Great geeky start. I'll be back.
Hey Sailor, Glad you like it! Each dot represents 100 people.
Fascinating, so where did you find the raw data in a format that was suitable for programming? Great work.
Hey Jim, the US DHS has a website with a bunch of immigration data (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/LPR07.shtm). Then I got the average latitude and longitude of each country from here (http://www.maxmind.com/app/country_latlon). Then a dash of (very badly written) perl/matlab, and voila!
Very cool. I always enjoy visualizations and am always curious where the data comes from. Tnx for explaining.
Check this out, from 2007.
http://jonathancousins.com/immigrationMap/.
My mom and dad are 1/50th of a yellow dot!
It's very moving. Thank you.
Vimeo says this video no longer exists...*wah*
I really liked this animation. I put up a couple of suggestions and rationales over at my blog, in case you are still perfectionist-tweaking.
http://moscowthroughbrowneyes.blogspot.com/2008/12/visualizing-migrations.html
@Jonathan: Woah! I hadn't seen that, but it's really nice! I guess we had very similar ideas. The interaction is a great feature.
The next version should put the US in the center of the map, with Asia on the left and Europe/Africa on the right. That will make it easier to see immigrants from Asia and Oceania -- they won't be overlapping with immigrants from Europe and Africa.
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