Mapping Puerto Rico's Hurricane Migration With Mobile Phone Data [CityLab.com]
It is well known that the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of state-to-state migration flows. But that’s not the case with Puerto Rico. Most of the publicly known numbers related to the post-Maria diaspora from the island to the continental U.S. were driven by estimates, and neither state nor federal institutions kept track of how many Puerto Ricans have left (or returned) after the storm ravaged the entire territory last September. But Teralytics , a New York-based tech company with offices...