Migration flows across the world. http://www.peoplemov.in Slides of my presentation at iDays in Norrköping at Visualisering-C and NOSP.

1. peoplemovin September 7th, 2011
Carlo Zapponi
Visualizing migration flows

2. who am I?
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3. carlo zapponi
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4. @littleark
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5. traveling

6. mixing cultures

7. creativity

8. An introduction

9. frog drives innovation for the connected world
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12. peoplemovin

13. infographics
visualizing data in a meaningful way

14. World Bank Open Data

15. more than 215 million people

16. more than 215 million people,
3% of the world population

17. more than 215 million people,
3% of the world population, live
outside their countries of birth

18. people move
showing the migration flows across the world

19. map view
I started with a visualization of flows over a map

20. flow diagram
inspiration from Sankey diagrams

22. people movin
migration flows across the world

23. peoplemovin is
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24. from left to right
source countries are on the left, destinations are on the right

25. vertical
countries are shown as bars vertically placed in alphabetical order

26. colored
the “hotter” the color, the larger the flow

27. interactive
clicking on the bars shows outgoing/incoming flows

28. playful
the user can navigate from country to country following the flows

29. HTML5
it runs on the latest browsers, on iPad and iPhone and Android

30. Sources
.The World Bank Open Data
.Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011
.US Census Bureau, International Database
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31. large coverage on the web
peoplemovin generated thousands of peoplemovin has been featured
tweets and facebook contacts. The web on Wired UK, DataVisualization,
site had more than 40,000 unique visitors InfoAesthetics, FlowingData, etc.
in the first two months.

32. some facts
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33. United States
is the top migrant destination with almost 43 millions immigrants

34. USA

35. USA
Russian Federation

36. USA
Russian Federation
Germany

37. USA
Russian Federation
Germany
Saudi Arabia

38. USA
Russian Federation
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Canada

39. Qatar
is the top immigration country relative to population 77%

40. 12 millions mexicans are in the US
Mexico-USA is the largest migration corridor in the world

41. from native to migrants
new international borders create new migrants

42. German of Kazakhstan
Descendant of Volga Germans, deported to Kazakhstan after the Nazi German Invasion
during World War II

43. Indians in the United Arab Emirates
Indians form over 40% of the total population of the UAE: petroleum and construction

44. Saudi Arabia the 3rd destination for Indians
Indians are the largest immigrants community in Saudi Arabia

45. Sweden
14% of the population comes from another country

46. can I use it?
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47. can I use it? sure
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48. peoplemovin is based on a
HTML5 Open Source toolkit
called DataMovin

49. what next?
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50. give meaning to the length of
the connecting lines

51. add a time based point of view

52. datamov.in final release

53. a di erent view of the world

56. carlo.zapponi@frogdesign.com
@littleark
http://peoplemov.in