For the final project, I would be interested in looking at the Maine State Seminary Data. I believe this was mentioned in class but I think it would be interesting to look at donation amount and distance from Boston. Another interesting thing could be the distance from a major healthcare facility. I think incorporating occupation or literacy rates into this analysis would also be interesting. The results of this analysis would tell us about resource accessibility and donations.
I would also be excited to look at the cotton data as well, but for some reason, I struggle to conceptualize and visualize that data. I think that both sets of data are super interesting, but with the Maine State Seminary I feel like each row of data is also a person since we have so much more information. I think I prefer the proximity to people that the MSS data offers. The cotton weights data is more numerical which feels less realistic. This is likely a reminder that I am a humanities person, not particularly drawn to a page filled with numerical data.
