Data visualization: example of a great, interactive chart
This chart was published in the Forbes magazine by Jon Bruner, and the data comes from the IRS tax stats tables.
Chart:
American Migration [Interactive Map] Close to 40 million Americans move from one home to another every year. Click anywhere on the map below: blue counties send more migrants to the selected county than they take; red counties take more than they send.
View interactive chart on Forbes website
Other aricles by Jon Bruner:
- Will Data Monopolies Paralyze the Internet? - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2012/04/12/will-data-monopoli...
- Five Steps For Making Data-Driven Decisions - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2012/04/20/five-steps-for-mak...
- Tim O’Reilly on the Future of Location: “The Guy with the Most Data Wins” -http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2012/04/04/tim-oreilly-on-the...
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Comment by Vincent Granville on May 8, 2012 at 7:12am -
By the way, here's another great chart from the same guy:
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Comment by Vincent Granville on May 8, 2012 at 7:07am
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Also, how do you produce a chart like this one? Can you do it with R, SAS, or in Perl?
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