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Baidu · 2018–2019

Qianxi — Migration Big Data

Animated origin-destination flows showing inter-city population migration at provincial and city granularity.

new mapv.baiduMapLayer() · migration
live · canvas / webgl

Real mapv migration layer on Baidu Map · 15 cities, 56 OD pairs · animated polyline trails.

What it is

Baidu's public-facing migration big-data product — visualizes inter-city population flow at provincial and city granularity, daily. During Spring Festival it's one of the most-cited data products in Chinese media.

The demo above

24 origin-destination flows across 9 cities, rendered as bezier arcs with three phased particles each. The same primitive used in the production map, scaled down.