Check out this Forbes interactive map Where Americans Are Moving (built with 2008 IRS data).

Red indicates outgoing migration, black, incoming migration.

Here’s Detroit:

Source: Forbes.com

Now here’s Seattle:

Source: Forbes.com


Note to Forbes: if you really want to make your interactive visualizations sharable, you should provide embed codes for blogs.

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2 responses to “Detroit vs Seattle: a tale of two cities through data”

  1. Terry Short Avatar

    Quite a dramatic juxtapositioning statement.

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