Brits Abroad

The beeb has an interesting viz of the distribution of expats globally. Possible of more interest is the work they report on the location of individuals with certain surnames carried out by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Currently, it doesn't look as if the surname profiler is fully functional (possibly due to traffic).

The display of expats (shown below) could, however, show much more. While it shows the breadth of expat Brits, it doesn't, for example, reflect the percentage by country population (which would be very interesting). The tool does, though, have some depth. One can explore regions and get to some country by country stats. With visualizations like this, one always has to make a decision between the simplicity of exploration and the power of combined elements.