German Migrant Letters

This case study is an interactive visualisation of the correspondance network between German migrants in the 19th and 20th Century, primarily in the Americas. The case study comprises of three Shiny apps that a provide an overview of how the migrant population dispersed over time using plot.ly cartograms.

Writing home: how German immigrants found their place in the US through the 19-20th Centuries, visualised with interactive maps