People Movin'

People Movin' is a website that uses HTML 5 to generate graphic presentations of the number of people moving from one country to another. It's designer, Carlo Zapponi, created it as an example of tools he is developing to generate data graphics using HTML. In theory the site could be designed to scrape the data continuously, giving something similar to a real time sense of the flow of data (for an example of that, see the wind map), but I doubt sufficient population data is available to make that feasible. The data shown is for 2010.

One thing I had not previously known but, accepting his data sources, do now:  People Movin' shows about 10% of the population of Mexico relocated to the USA in 2010. The total number -- about 11 million people -- dwarfs any other migration from one country to another that year. The USA as an immigration destination also dwarfs any other country.

The charts are cool to browse through though I think so far of not much use but the wow factor. Anyway -- it's worth a look. Via Neatorama.