Mapping Migration - a Visualization of Inflow & Outflows by Nation

As the election season matures and the Census decennial data slowing "leaks" out, there has been a lot of focus on America's changing demographics.  Below is a neat site that visualizes the migration inflow & outflows by nation.

Here is a screenshot (from peoplemov) of the US migration inflows, interesting how the drop off in count is dramatic after the Mexico-USA corridor is tabulated (oceans will do that to migration...).

"Cut & Paste" Highlights from peoplemovin:

"...the flows of migrants as of 2010 through the use of open data (see Data Sources below).... are presented as a flow chart that shows the connections between countries. The chart is split in two columns, the emigration countries on the left and the destination countries on the right ... [t]he thickness of the lines connecting the countries represents the amount of immigrated people. ..."

This isn't exclusively limited to US data.  The "world's top migration corridor" list makes me "muse" a bit.  It's fascinating where the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are "moving to".

Migration Data:

The World Bank Open Data
Bilateral Migration and Remittances 2010

Refugees and Asylum

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

World Population Data

U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base

 

Data Sources - All the presented data are the latest available as of 2010.

peoplemovin is an experimental project in data visualization by Carlo Zapponi. Credits also go to FlowingData for bringing this site to my attention.

Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic maps - When Depictions of Life intersects Location

Neat blog post on Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic maps. Credits to The Map Room and Donna Seger's The Streets of Salem of bringing this to my attention.


From her post " ... The shift from conceptual to more realistic cartography in the early modern era is a very evident and important trend, but early modern mapmakers retained a bit of whimsy when they produced maps in the form of plants, animals and humans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...."

 German theology professor Heinrich Bunting’s Travels according to the Scriptures (1581): 

Specific to this image, " ...Another lively early modern map is the “Dutch Lion” map (Leo Belgicus, Leo Hollandicus ) issued in a succession of variations from the late sixteenth century, contemporaneously with the Dutch Revolt against Spain. The rebellious Dutch provinces are shown in the form of a lion, roaring in the face of the powerful Spanish Empire...."

"Leo Hollandicus", JC Visscher, 1648

Moving out of New York (and into): The Visualization of Where

Found this  - a wonderful interactive visual display of New York migration patterns by zip code.  Really at its base, there are two key bits of information driving this map - where to & from by zip.


Taking a "dot cartogram" approach, I like to the "in-out" color thematics and inter route line connections to origin and destination zip codes.


This was part of 15 data "interpretations" featured on FlowingData and WNYC. Read/view more on the other submission below.

From WNYC.org's Map Your Moves: Data Visualization Challenge Submissions


Full credits to Moritz Stefaner (moritz.stefaner.eu)  - great work! Also thanks to FlowingData Mapping the moves of New York residents for bringing this to my attention.

Airplane Finder 101: Mapping an Aircraft

Just got back from a business trip - thought these images were hysterical.

Full credits to to South African Travel Blogger Chris Rawlinson and FlowingData for bringing this to my attention (and a good laugh).

Quick "cut & paste" from the official press release:

"...The design covers the planes exterior in a tongue-in-cheek guide to the various parts of the planes interior, such as the “Mile-high initiation chamber”. The plane is just one of a fleet expansion of eight state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800s (each with a unique livery). As these planes will be replacing the 737-400’s currently used in kulula’s fleet, South Africans can look forward to spotting the new 800’s during this year...."

Official Press Release - Kulula Flying 101

For a bit more info on Kulula from Wikipedia:

" ...www.kulula.com is a South African low-fare airline.It is now known as Kulula Air. It operates domestic services to all major cities and regional services to Namibia, Mauritius, Zambia and Zimbabwe... The name kulula is Zulu for easily..."

Data Display - Change in Airline Service

• This interactive map is a great mix of two of my passions; the intelligent display of complex data and air travel.

Full credits to USA Today, asn William Coauch, Barbara Hansen and Anne Carey who put this together.

• Link to Full article: