Here are some revisions I made to my project based on the comments and suggestions I received during the class conference: Shawn raised a great point about cultural and material transformations going hand in hand. After reading his comment, I included a small paragraph in my section titled, “The Goods” discussing how the influx of […]
This week I worked on interactivity. I created a dashboard combining my bar charts, added filters, and wrote annotations on the rest of my charts. The previous bar charts I posted using the Wendell dataset were misleading because I implied that “Trading by Month” included all trading that occurred between Wendell and his business partners, […]
This week, I encountered difficulties with my “Highest Earners of Each Nation” chart. I was struggling to figure out how I wanted to visualize the pence field, but I knew I still wanted to focus on how Fonda paid each trader and how any discrepancies could possibly reflect a power dynamic between traders of different nations, […]
These are the six visualizations I am working on for this project. There is still much to work on in terms of making them prettier. I plan on playing with the color schemes a bit more as well as the titles. I also need to clean up some of the alias for some of the […]
I am using datasets provided by Prof. Kane that list economic transactions between Dutch fur traders and their indigenous trading partners that conducted business in Albany, NY. Most of these exchanges involve furs of various mammals, including bears, martens, muskrats, and most notably, beaver. These datasets represent primary documents written by Jelles Fonda, Evert Wendell, […]
I will use three datasets that Prof. Kane assembled for the Module 2: Data Critique assignment. These are the two Jelles Fonda datasets and the Dutch Account books from the Indigenous Economic Data category. I explored the Unidentified Dutch Account book, but I want to look at Fonda’s account books as well and see if […]