Weekly Map # 3

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I absolutely love this map. When I first came across it, I spent a solid half hour exploring it. It shows you where people were born within the United States in three different years: 1900, 1950, and 2012. Within each state, the gray area represents the percentage of people born in that particular state. The most interesting and well designed part of the map is how within each state there are other colors to designate certain regions where the majority of other migrants were born. If you hover over each polygon within a state, it gives you the actual percentage of out of staters. I liked finding the outliers for the states with the greatest and least migrates and then trying to figure out a reason for the displacement. Overall I think this map in incredibly well done being that a huge amount of information is displayed on a single base map. Even if the viewer didn't use any of the interactive, roll-over features it would be still get it's message across.