Coal supply in the German Empire
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Main ideas
- To study the coal supply and demand of the German Empire for the year 1881.
- Interactive visualization of Germany's main coal production and consumption centers.
- Dynamic visualization of coal transport flows according to the different mining basins and transport routes.
- Differentiating the production and consumption centers from the transport hubs.
- Creation of a website to present the results.
- Interpretation of the results: the role of coal in the German Unification (Macroeconomic aspects of German unification preceding the political unification).
Further possible upgrades
- Compare the supply of the time with an optimized computerized supply.
- Further analyze coal consumption data by cities in relation to the main industries of the time.
- Observe the correlation of coal production and consumption at the time with the level of subsequent economic development of cities, in an attempt to quantify the economic impact of this strategic resource.
- Highlighting the possible parallels between the role of coal in the German unification and the European unification (European Coal and Steel Community).
Main steps
- Print a full-sized map, in order to facilitate manual data extraction.
- Extract data to csv (production, consumption, flux).
- Extract cities' coordinates.
- Find background map of the German Empire in the end of the XIXth century
- Code the visual representation of production and consumption center.
- Code the visual representation of coal flux.
Map details
Berlin as one on the main consumption center.
The Ruhr, Germany's main industrial center.
Bremen and Bremerhafen, a small consumption center, but a huge transport hub.
The extremely precise scale system.
Colors legend.
