Background

For this project, we are using data from the article titled, “Writing home: how German immigrants found their place in the US” by Felix Krawatzek.

The dataset provides a variety of information about the letters sent between the United States and Germany.

Understanding this data will help to uncover information about United States-German immigration and communication.

Summary Information

The total letters of numbers that were recorded in the dataset was 13774.

The total number of start/end city pairs was 116. This includes letters from city A to city B and city B to city A as two separate pairs, if applicable.

Plotly letters by country

Number of letters sent, by country - Almost all letters were sent from the U.S.

Number of letters received, by country - The majority of letters were received by Germany, although a decent amount (1,277 letters) stayed completely within the U.S.

Evaluation of the send/receive pairs. Most letters were sent from the U.S. to Germany, as expected by the distribution above.

Highcharter letters by city

Distribution of sending cities

Distribution of receiving cities

Leaflet path of letters

This interactive map shows all of the journeys taken by letters in this data set

Shiny App to Explore Data

This shiny application can be used to further explore specific journeys or letters of interest.

https://interactive-viz-test-environment-0627.shinyapps.io/presentation-shiny-app/"

Thank you! Questions?