peoplemovin September 7th, 2011 Carlo
Zapponi Visualizing migration flows

who am I?
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carlo zapponi
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@littleark
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traveling

mixing cultures

creativity

An introduction

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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 move showing the migration
flows across the world

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

flow diagram inspiration from Sankey
diagrams

people movin migration flows across
the world

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

vertical countries are shown as
bars vertically placed in alphabetical order

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

interactive clicking on the bars
shows outgoing/incoming flows

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

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

Sources .The World Bank Open
Data .Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 .US Census Bureau, International Database 29

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.

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

USA

USA
Russian Federation

USA
Russian Federation
Germany

USA Russian Federation Germany Saudi
Arabia

USA Russian Federation Germany Saudi
Arabia Canada

Qatar is the top immigration
country relative to population 77%

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

from native to migrants new
international borders create new migrants

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

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

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

Sweden 14% of the population
comes from another country

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

what next?
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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

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