Immigration may have taken a back seat during the financial crisis, but the issue still needs resolving. While illegal immigrants sneaking over the border is still a primary concern, it’s good to know who came to our country legally, and from where.
GOOD Magazine’s latest Infographic Transparency looks at the 20 countries from which the most people came to America in 2008, how many immigrants already had family here, and how many received asylum when they arrived on our shores.
Check out the other GOOD Transparency’s for some more quality infographics.
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It looks nice, but I do not think it is accurate in visualizing the numbers. For one, all the bars would not stack like that to create the clean edge displayed. Also the area/volume of the “All other countries” looks about 3.5 times as big as Mexico, but is actually just under twice as big. It took me a moment to see that they did sort the breakdown numbers, but did not supply a breakdown of all other countries.
Other than that, I like the use of color, but I do not trust the visualization.
I’ve enjoyed some of the other infographics from GOOD, but not this one. It is an eye catching graphic, I’ll give them that. And it’s easy to grasp what message is trying to be conveyed. Actually understanding the data being presented, however, is a mess. Correlating the relative size of the big gray block to Mexico or China’s big stripes just doesn’t work. The color used in the strips has a loose association to the flags, but not much. The flags are in no particular order, so your eye bounces all over searching for the numbers that match each other; at least give me some callout lines to help match them up! And since the breakdown of why the people are immigrating (connection to family or refugee/asylum is buried in 20 different tables, it’s just lost.
I think this infographic is a failure. Literally, more information could have been conveyed with one or two line charts.
The stacked bar must represent percentages (hence the 'clean edges' — although it's confusing since they only report numbers)? Not the most successful GOOD graphic, in any case.