Conviz is a web app that allows web based access and visualisation of the British Convict Transportation Registry. It features:
Convict Information
One of the basic functions of Conviz is it makes the registry information available online in a user friendly format via the following features:
- View the complete registry as paginated tables; this feature also includes the ability to sort by any field e.g. date of departure or destination.
- Search for convicts by name (first, last or both)
- View all available information about a convict
- Conviz has derived some additional information about each convict (e.g. county of conviction), this is displayed along side the convict’s records
- Data cleansing (merging similar but slightly different fields), e.g. Boat names and destinations.
Convict Filter
The registry contains a lot of entries (+123,000), Conviz allows the registry to be filtered into smaller subsets of related convicts. Convicts can be filtered by:
- Boat
- Destination
- Departure year
- Conviction county
- Sentence
- First or last name
Visualisations
Visualisations (graphs, charts & maps) where the main reason for building Conviz and the site currently includes the following visualisations:
- Bar chart of boats that transported the most convicts
- Bubble chart of the top 100 boats
- Geo intensity map of convict destinations
- Donut graph of convict destinations and destination states
- Stacked area graph of conviction year and destination state
- Column chart of departure month
- Pie chart of departure decade
- Bar chart of top conviction counties
- Google map with pins for all conviction counties
- Pie chart of sentence severities
- Column chart of conviction decade and sentence severity
- Bar chart of most popular first names
- Bar chart of most popular last names
URL of your entry:: http://www.conviz.info
