Maps + Graphs

Qualitative data analysis • 1:1 interview and creative survey compilation
​I'm analyzing the data I collected this summer in a few different ways, but one of my favorites is combining all of the sticker responses onto a single map per site. Here, you can see how emotions shifted as people moved through Somerset Place State Historic Site, below.

​Using interview data from the visitor conversations, I can also identify what the green, yellow, and red stickers meant for different people around the site. This clears up ambiguity and gives site staff a glimpse into the minds of their visitors. For example, Location B on the map above is the reconstructed houses where dozens of people enslaved on this plantation were forced to live. The small number of green smiling faces in the corresponding graph (far left) does not indicate that a small number of visitors were happy that people were enslaved. Rather, it indicates that a number of people were very happy to see that the stories of enslaved people were being preserved and told at Somerset Place, which prides itself on teaching the full history of all the former plantation's inhabitants.