There’s an awful lot of information in our project database! It can be challenging to find a way to access it – a spreadsheet with hundreds of thousands of datapoints isn’t the easiest thing to read. On this page we’ve included a few resources which present different – more visual – ways into the data. Each of them only touches on a portion (often only a small portion) of the data, but they show the potential. There are currently three maps and a run of data visualisations.
Maps
Britain and Ireland – county-level data:
Portsmouth area – individual-level data:
Bromsgrove area – individual-level data:
Data visualisations
With the help of a University of Portsmouth Graphic Design student, Adrian Floyde, we created a series of data visualisations, to help unpick some of the information in the database. We’ve included these below, along with a 2-page render for print. Feel free to download and circulate these freely! They cover the first run of data released in the project, the Railway Inspectorate records between 1911 and 1915. We’ve since expanded the database considerably.
A note of caution: these visualisations tell us about absolute numbers, but not about cause-and-effect underlying the accidents. So, treat them carefully!
