Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A BRAND NEW LIFE AROUND THE BEND: Via Forbes, an interactive map you'll enjoy playing with: a visual exploration of 2008 IRS data indicating, on a county-by-county basis, where Americans are moving to and from. Just don't click on Wayne Co., Michigan (Detroit), because that's depressing.

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  1. Wowee, geez: just noticed that once you pull up a county, you can hover your cursor over any destination county and see just how many people came/went, and what the per capita income in each direction was.  Whoa.

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  2. Joseph J. Finn10:20 AM

    It's the little things you find; who were the 19 people who moved form Taylor County, TX, to Cook County?  An extended family?

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  3. Benner10:30 AM

    It'll be interesting to see these data in a few years time, to trace the effects of the foreclosure crisis.

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  4. The Pathetic Earthling11:15 AM

    I noticed a few of those sorts of things.  A block of people from some county in Montana to Pulaski County (Little Rock), AR.  Might be a business moving, too.

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  5. Anonymous12:04 PM

    What, no "There's a new girl in town, with a brand new style. She was just passing through, but if things work out she's gonna stay awhile."?

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  6. Woopsie, the guest was me with newly refreshed browser privacy settings.

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  7. A slightly different map, but fascinating - the NYT has an interactive map of immigration data since 1880, by county.
    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

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  8. J. Bowman1:34 PM

    Yep, looks like Traverse City will soon be the largest city in Michigan.

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  9. Wait, where's the part that tells us who, exactly, is the boss?

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  10. Not to spoil anything, but it's Samantha.

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  11. Heather K8:23 PM

    Also 12 people from Benton County, Washington which makes me thinks probs related and do I know them?

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  12. I always thought it was Mona.

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  13. It was so very Mona.  Angela didn't get to wear her bigboss pants really until she became Clare Meade.

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