Parish Deaths Sparklines
2025-03-24
Sparklines of plague and non-plague parish deaths
Jason Heppler
Jason Heppler is the senior web developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an adjunct professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.
Mapping Burials and Plague
2025-02-27
Mapping plague and non-plague deaths
Calendar of Causes
2024-10-04
Graphing the causes of death over time
Causes Histograms
2024-10-04
Graphing the causes of death per week
Causes of Death as a Cloud
2023-06-27
Charting the causes of death
Counting the Causes of Death
2023-06-06
Charting the causes of death
Counting the Transcribed Bills
2023-03-27
Charting the completeness of our transcriptions
Building a Data API for Historical Research
2022-11-21
We are in the process of building out a data API to support the data work we’re undertaking with the transcription of the plague bills. We anticipate hundreds of thousands of rows of data by the end of our transcription process, and we wanted an easy and efficient way to work with that data. As part of our work in data-driven historical research at RRCHNM, we are building a data API to store and access data from databases.
Visualizing the Bills of Mortality
2022-11-11
One of the ways we are using the transcribed bills of mortality is in data visualization and mapping, in an effort to ask new questions and revisit old ones. At the Southern History Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore, we presented preliminary work on data visualization and the data API. An interactive notebook on this early work is available on Observable for perusal (note, the page may take a moment to load the 100,000+ records).