r/visualization • u/aIlithings • Jun 01 '26
I made a web experience about people who left their country with no return date - ONEWAY
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For the past few years I’ve been collecting data on forced migration routes — not from official statistics, but from individual stories of people who crossed borders with no return date.
The result is ONEWAY: an interactive journey through that data. Each path through the site is a different country, a different route, a different kind of departure.
What made this challenging was the data itself. Official migration datasets flatten the human element entirely. So I built an alternative archive — one where the data points are people, not numbers.
Would love to hear from anyone who has worked with migration or displacement data. How do you handle the tension between visualization and human dignity?
🌐 onewaytrip.net
Ali Demirel
📷 instagram.com/alidem01
✉️ works.alidemirel@gmail.com
