Any sense of where to get the source data? I wonder what the first principal eigenvector looks like.
Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice one! Detroiters should get the reference. Ahh, not surprised one bit. That place is where I was raised, but alas, I was a part of that mass exodus. Besides family (and some awesome Mexican food), I don't miss the city one bit. There is NOTHING in Detroit. NOTHING! It's as depressing as it is telling. I feel this exodus is a vicious cycle that won't stop anytime soon. No one is there, hence no new money is being…
Here's a question: how the hell did you get awesome Mexican food that far away from Mexico? I hear people from Texas and California talk about awesome Mexican food, but never Detroit.
Haha, yeah, it seems surprising at first, but Detroit has a HUGE Mexican and Hispanic population. Also (and due to) we have Mexican Town -- check your English at the door!
Whatever you're in the mood for (flautas, tostadas, chorizo), you can find it there.
Note: I've been in Japan for 3 years now, and it's nigh impossible to find decent Mexican/Tex-Mex :-( ...
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#13Very interesting data but not a great interactive graphic. Instead of color to indicate direction maybe they could have used curved lines and arching over the strait line could be in and under could be out.
They don't even try to graph per capita income -- which naturally lends itself to red/black. Are poor people moving in or out? Are high wage earners? or everyone? It is not possible to tell unless you start clicking around.
For example, you click on Atlanta you see a mass of black lines heading from the northeast to Atlanta. But if hover over Middlesex county (Boston) you see the detail of 188 people leaving Boston with an average income of $38,700 and 151 people moving from Atlanta to Boston with per capita income of $174,100.
I'll take that trade any day.
I give the graphic a C+, great data, good first try, but re-cook it.
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#14What a terrible visualization! It tells you nothing until you click on it, and is very hard to read even after you've clicked.
The main map should color counties by net inward and outward migration so you can see highlights and broad regional patterns at a glance. Upon clicking a county, it should color the remaining counties by net inward and outward migration relative to the highlighted one.
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#15People are moving to New York and Dallas.
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#16Clicking randomly around the midwest is sort of amazing. I'm not sure if it's a lack of data for those areas, but almost no one migrates in or out.
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#17New Orleans is worth a look. Having visited last year and fallen in love with the city, it's encouraging to see people moving in.
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#18Interesting, but, agreed, not the greatest map.
Deschutes County, OR (Bend, basically): Californication.
Boulder, County, CO: a lot of people are going there, but those who leave appear headed for the pacific northwest.
Maricopa, County, AZ (Phoenix): wow... that's a lot of people.
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#19Click on Detroit.
Nice one! Detroiters should get the reference. Ahh, not surprised one bit. That place is where I was raised, but alas, I was a part of that mass exodus. Besides family (and some awesome Mexican food), I don't miss the city one bit. There is NOTHING in Detroit. NOTHING! It's as depressing as it is telling. I feel this exodus is a vicious cycle that won't stop anytime soon. No one is there, hence no new money is being…
I'm from Michgan as well, and have a lot of family in the greater Detroit area. The sense of despair that most people in the area feel is just awful. After the auto plants started to close up, people just started packing up in hopes of finding work elsewhere. Some moved in-state, but most make the flight south and west (warmer weather, more jobs). I was recently in Dearborn for a wedding, and the number of empty & foreclosed houses is just staggering.
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#20- Orange County, CA is pretty interesting. There is a lot of migration inwards from the East Coast/Upper Midwest (e.g. PA, MI), but lots of migration outwards throughout the country. [ http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in... ] - Oakland County [ http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in... ] (Ann Arbor, U of M, Slashdot) and Wayne County (Detroit) [link: http://www.forbes.co…
Ann Arbor (and U of M, etc.) is in Washtenaw County, not Oakland.