slave voyages - embarking

Slave Voyages - Embarking

This is an attempt at visualizing the relative scale of the slave trade by country. The data comes from slavevoyages.org.

The visualization is inpsired by the Mountains-out-of-molehills visualization. The focus is to communicate the relative scale over time, giving us a sense of activity over time of this attrocious part of our history.

forked from rcrocker13's block: slave voyages - embarking

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      var countries = Object.keys(data[0]).slice(1,7);
      countries = [
        "Portugal",
        "Great Britain",
        "France",
        "Spain",
				"Netherlands",
				"U.S.A.",
      ]
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      countries.forEach(function(country) {
        countryData[country] = data.map(function(d) {
          return parseInt(d[country].replace(/,/g, ''));
        })
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      console.log(countries)
      console.log(data[0]);
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      .append("g").classed("year", true)
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        .text(function(d) { return d.year })
        .attr("transform", "rotate(0)translate(-10,12)")
      
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        .append("text")
      	.text(function(d) { return d })

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