This is a map of my college town Dahlonega, Georgia in the United States. I have spent many years studying here and it is a very important place to me. While this is not directly related to my projects on this site, this is a learning experience for a future map of Germany I will…
Category: Workshops
Workshop #11: Visualization Plan
Over the course of my research, my focus has shifted from the damage to Dresden, urban loss, and its post war recovery to more of a study of allied strategic bombing on Dresden. I have not forgotten my original question, however, and while it likely take coding skills that I do not have to do,…
Dresden’s bombing Compared
For this post, I am again stating that the people who died in Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig, and in any city hit by strategic bombing on all sides of the war, were people. Reducing their experiences to statistics is not the purpose of this or any project I will publish on this site. We must remember…
Datawrapper Test Workshop
Workshop 9: Visualization Practice
This is a workshop for visualizing data using a dataset of Chicago Homicides from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. We are specifically using data pertaining to alcohol-related deaths. This chart shows alcohol-related deaths that occurred near or around a vehicle per year. There is a noticeable spike in these deaths as we move…
Chicago Homicide Workshop
Graph of Alcohol-related homicides by Year
Sourcing Data on the Bombings
A quick note before I write about statistics; these were people, not numbers. As I write about strategic bombing, percentages of destroyed cities, population loss, and other statistics, we, as in historians and the reader, cannot forget that these statistics represent people, their deaths, terror, and lived experience. To fully understand the damage dealt to…
The Second World War and Depopulation in Saxony
The state of Saxony is home to Dresden as well as two other major industrial cities, those being Leipzig and Chemnitz which were also targeted by allied bombing raids. My aim in this post is to look at the population damage that Dresden suffered, as a first step to researching the damage done to other…
Why Dresden?
Dresden is a very interesting city for a number of reasons. It is located in East Germany and was part of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) until reunification. It was decimated at the end of World War II by Allied bombing raids in one of the most devastating non-nuclear attacks in world history. Its population…