Project PRISM aims to combat misconceptions about the complex phenomenon of internal geographic mobility in the United States.
- Since data about multiple migrations is hard to understand; PRISM provides data visualizations as a prism through which to better understand them.
- Where are internal migrants in the US coming from? Where are they going instead?
- Why are internal migrants in the US crssing state lines to move?
- What other push and pull factors affect this phenomenon and How.
| Visualization | Data Resources |
|---|---|
| ChartJs | API.Data |
| D3-Wiki | Kaggle |
| Jquery | Zillow.Data |
| Average Income Graph Inspiration | Choropleth |
| Kaggle.Visualization | Census Data |
Migration is a regular part of the American experience. While most Americans would never migrate out of their home states, there still exists a sizeable subset that moves across state lines for. PRISM data suggests who these Americans are:
- they tend to be better edicated, as fewer Americans without college degrees move across state lines despite being a similar part of the population.
- they tend to be Millenials moving to economically vibrant coastal states like New York, Texas, and California.
- newer in-migrants to economic centers tend to replace older out-migrants; which suggests a cyclical nature to American migration patterns.
- migrants who move out-of-state are more likely to go to closer neighboring states than to faraway locations.
- in raw numbers, culturally progressive states tend to send out more out-migrants; and these migrants may be contributing to the demographic, cultural, and political transformation of several American jurisdictions.
- Pulling data and cleaning the data
- Taking the latest 5 years of data
- Define at what level (city/county) we want to look at the Census's data
- Clean up code and upload to Github
- Analyze and plot the data to answer our research questions as applicable
- PowerPoint slide to present at the end of the project.
A supplementary analysis on Tableau can be found HERE