Where Are We From?

In: Culture Interactive Maps Source: NYT US Economy

28 Jun 2009

I missed this back in march but just spotted a reference at Infographics. The NYT took 120 years of immigration data and threw it perfectly at a map – you can filter by country of origin, then move through time with the slider.

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Ally S

July 1st, 2009 at 2:57 am

Very nifty – but I would like it a lot better if the bubbles represented the proportion made up by each nationality, rather than the actual number. As it is, the trends tend to closely follow the natural population distribution.

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