Watch Colorful Bursts of Commuters From Each U.S. County

Most Americans don’t get warm and fuzzy feelings when they think of their daily commute, and never have. New Yorkers who use the city’s overextended subway system at peak hours, for example, probably don’t enjoy being wedged in among an assortment of strange limbs on a daily basis. The same goes for people in other cities who take crowded buses. And even if you drive to work alone (as most Americans still do), hitting stubborn walls of rush-hour traffic every few blocks hardly makes for a tranquil morning ritual.

But while the American commute may not be fun, this colorful new visual representation of it certainly is. In it, the Michigan-based data enthusiast Mark Evans uses Census data to show Americans’ work-related commutes as bursts of colorful dots, contracting into and expanding outwards from each county in the U.S.