latam_networks

Visualising conference networks in Latin America

What this script does

I've taken the Word file of Americanists 1939 conference attendees and put them in a spreadsheet - this lives on the JGI SharePoint. This script reads that spreadsheet and does the following:

• Looks at each attendee and finds the location of their origin city
• Draws a map of the world
• Draws arrows from each origin point to Lima, where the conference was held

How to run

• Install the requirements
• Get the required data
  • The script will do most of this for you, but you'll need to put the spreadsheet americanists_attendees.xlsx (this can be found on the JGI SharePoint) in the data/ directory
• Run prototype.py

Data Sources

City locations lookup table from https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities This is a modern map of the world so might not match up to the 1939 borders, but it should be good enough for our visualisations