Above is access to our Carto map. Our intention is to visually represent those students who were casualties of the Civil War. As a comparison to the overall student body, we represented the hometowns of all students with red points. Those students who were included in the data “died in the civil war” are represented as blue points. These points are their “final residence”, or the location where they died in battle. By hovering over the blue points, one can see that some students lost their life at major battles in the Civil War, such as Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. The map is aesthetically simple yet informative, and interactive with the ability to hover over each point and know the student from New York Central College who is being represented, where they were born and if they died in the civil war.
By: Peter McKasty, Kara Smith and Monique Walsh