I found the link to the Forbes map on Flowing Data. The site has a little bit everything, from the fantastic visualizations sometimes done by XKCD to silly made up info graphics about bed head.
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Forbes has a fantastic dynamic map of migration statistics drawn from IRS data. The migration is internal to the U.S., but clicking on cities or areas reveals patterns that make you ask questions. Here’s a screen shot for the map with Lafayette as the focus:
Migration into and out of Lafayette, Louisiana
What’s the inbound migration from south California and Nevada? Is that migrant workers?
My friend Tim Lloyd and I share a love of graphics that not only tell a story or represent data well but do it so well as to become another kind of work in and of themselves. Gregory Bateson would have, following Bertrand Russell, probably suggested that this was a matter of logical types. In any event, there are two sites that are worth following, in addition to that of Edward Tufte who sort of created this category:
- One is Information Is Beauitful. The author of the site does much of the graphic work himself, with the help of willing researchers. His representation of the various End of the World Schemes Having to Do with 2012 is pretty amazing — it’s almost like trying to take in a Baroque chapel ceiling painting.
- Another fun place to browse is Biblioddyssey which pursues a different tact. Its author browses through older materials in search of infographic like illustrations and diagrams. Here’s one from the Victorian era
