Thursday 13 May 2021

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✚ Making a Quick, Custom Prevalence Map – The Process 139

Posted: 13 May 2021 10:15 AM PDT

Welcome to issue #139 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we look at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m describing my process behind a quick map. You can download the code at the end of this issue.

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Map of people moving during pandemic

Posted: 13 May 2021 12:21 AM PDT

It was only a matter of time before someone showed dots moving across a map to show migration during the pandemic. Again, using USPS change of address data, Yan Wu and Luis Melgar for the Wall Street Journal (paywalled) showed where people moved in the country.

As shown through other views, a lot of the movement wasn’t out of the ordinary, but in some areas — mainly San Francisco and New York — the pandemic appeared to motivate people a little more to move.

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