Scientific American is running a piece on how a new paper just published in Science has taken the dataset on global migrant flows by the United Nations and generated a new view of the data in an interactive chart. It is interesting to take a look and see how many people are moving from one region to another and how interconnected people are. The largest moves appear to be between regions in Sub-Saharan Africa(probably due to war and refugees), from South Asia to Western Asia, and Central America to North America.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by ramloss on Thursday April 03 2014, @03:32PM
The migration patterns are interesting by themselves, but i found much more interesting the tool used to display them http://circos.ca/ [circos.ca] quite cool graphics that I had not seen previously.
(Score: 1) by dj245 on Thursday April 03 2014, @06:48PM
This kind of graph was used in a recent version of Time Magazine, the US edition (International editions often differ in content). I believe it was the April 1 issue.