Team Elm Shantanu Pal Emma Tonkin Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka Alice Thudt Soren Knudsen

1. Alice Thudt
Emma Tonkin
Søren Knudsen
Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka
Shantanu Pal
Distances in Migration Flows
Group ELM

2. Data
Census data
(UK districts)
Text mined
population from
Wikipedia
Boundaries
database
- UK
Calculated
centroids

3. Matrix of flows
Origin Destination
City of
London Havering Islington Redbridge Rotherham Sheffield Gateshead
Newcastle upon
Tyne Rutland Nottingham Plymouth
City of London 72 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Havering 1013 3355 194 507 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Islington 509 5 1565 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Redbridge 857 257 277 2002 0 1 1 1 0 2 0
Rotherham 5 0 0 1 5330 2239 1 0 0 14 0
Sheffield 4 0 2 0 858 15591 0 3 0 23 0
Gateshead 3 1 0 0 0 1 3732 1847 0 0 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 1 0 0 0 0 2 719 6153 0 4 0
Rutland 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 619 12 0
Nottingham 3 0 1 0 2 7 1 0 1 6403 0
Plymouth 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7111
Torbay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28
Bournemouth 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Poole 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Swindon 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Wiltshire 15 3 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1
Peterborough 19 1 9 1 0 0 0 1 16 3 0
Luton 73 0 25 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 0
Bedford 46 1 11 0 0 3 0 0 1 4 0
Central Bedfordshire 102 4 50 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 0
Southend-on-Sea 393 59 36 32 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Thurrock 399 225 50 72 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Medway 327 13 58 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
Bracknell Forest 19 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
West Berkshire 20 0 8 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

4. Spatial
representation
of data

5. Matrix of flows

6. Network of flows

7. Our question:
Effect of geographic distance:
Does distance matter to the
number of flows, i.e. are flows
that are between units that are
further apart, smaller than those
between units close-by?

8. Sketching