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Aug 6
2009
Infographic of the Day: Who Came to the US in 2008
by Ben Lorica | @dliman | comments: 4From Good magazine's infographics team, a visual summary listing the 20 countries with the most number of immigrants to the U.S. in 2008:
(This recent interview lists similar examples from the pages of Good, including graphics that compare (American) museums and major subway systems.)
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The gray "unknown" bar is fascinating. Are those known unknowns, unknown knowns or unknown unknowns?
Why hasn't the US taken in any of the millions of Iraqi refugees ? It is a crime.
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/where-we-work/middle-east/iraq
I can't think of any way in which this presentation of the information is superior to a plain old bar chart, perhaps in order of number of immigrants to facilitate comparisons.
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Frank Ch. Eigler [2009-08-06 10:43 AM]
That's at least the legal immigrants. That qualifier is included in the good.is article, but perhaps should have appeared on the graphic too.