I will be focusing on the major buildings here at Bates College. I am interested in looking at where each of the donors earned the majority of their money. I would like to be able to create a visualization for each of the donors that tells a brief story of how they had such extreme financial stability that they would be able to donate enough money for a building. As I have been thinking more about this project the more I am thinking about the understanding that all money has been made because of the inhumane exploitation of enslaved black people.
I was looking at the Bates website and noticed how boring and uninformative the page on the history of each building truly is. There is a muddled paragraph or two about the finances involved and that is pretty much all. In theory, data visualizations could be used in a really awesome way to best accurately represent the history of the people whose names are commonplace around the Bates College campus. I am expecting there to be some limitations in the amount of information I am able to use to best describe each donor and their respective buildings but I am hopeful. I am not sure if I will do anymore analysis than descriptives about each building but I may attempt to summarize and categorize where the funding of the majority of buildings at Bates College was from.
