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Migration flows across the world. http://www.peoplemov.in Slides of my presentation at iDays in Norrköping at Visualisering-C and NOSP.TRANSCRIPT
Visualizing migration flows
September 7th, 2011Carlo Zapponi
peoplemovin
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who am I?
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infographicsvisualizing data in a meaningful way
World Bank Open Data
more than 215 million people
more than 215 million people, 3% of the world population
more than 215 million people, 3% of the world population, live outside their countries of birth
people moveshowing the migration flows across the world
map viewI started with a visualization of flows over a map
flow diagraminspiration from Sankey diagrams
people movinmigration flows across the world
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peoplemovin is
from left to rightsource countries are on the left, destinations are on the right
verticalcountries are shown as bars vertically placed in alphabetical order
coloredthe “hotter” the color, the larger the flow
interactiveclicking on the bars shows outgoing/incoming flows
playfulthe user can navigate from country to country following the flows
HTML5it runs on the latest browsers, on iPad and iPhone and Android
Sources
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.The World Bank Open Data
.Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011
.US Census Bureau, International Database
peoplemovin generated thousands of tweets and facebook contacts. The web site had more than 40,000 unique visitors in the first two months.
peoplemovin has been featured on Wired UK, DataVisualization, InfoAesthetics, FlowingData, etc.
large coverage on the web
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some facts
United Statesis the top migrant destination with almost 43 millions immigrants
USA
Russian Federation
USA
Russian Federation
Germany
USA
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Germany
USA
Canada
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Germany
USA
Qataris the top immigration country relative to population 77%
12 millions mexicans are in the USMexico-USA is the largest migration corridor in the world
from native to migrantsnew international borders create new migrants
German of KazakhstanDescendant of Volga Germans, deported to Kazakhstan after the Nazi German Invasion
during World War II
Indians in the United Arab EmiratesIndians form over 40% of the total population of the UAE: petroleum and construction
Saudi Arabia the 3rd destination for IndiansIndians are the largest immigrants community in Saudi Arabia
Sweden14% of the population comes from another country
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can I use it?
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can I use it? sure
peoplemovin is based on a HTML5 Open Source toolkit called DataMovin
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what next?
give meaning to the length of the connecting lines
add a time based point of view
datamov.in final release
a di!erent view of the world