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Data Selection
Data Selection
This data originates from the research of Wendy Perla Kurtz, Nikolai Blaumer, and Benno Herz. They utilized articles including but not limited to Lawrence Weschler’s “Paradise: The Southern California Idyll of Hitler’s Cultural Exiles,” Alex Ross’s “The Haunted California Idyll of German Writers in Exile,” and Donna Rifkind’s “The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood” to create a list of European intellectuals’ and artists’ addresses in Los Angeles, along with the coordinates of their homes and their professions. They developed this dataset for use in UCLA’s Digital Humanities 187: Europeans in Exile course to provide insight into the mass migration of European intellectuals and artists to Los Angeles. To fit our project’s needs, we extracted the names, addresses, and coordinates organized by Dr. Kurtz, Mr. Blaumer, and Mr. Herz and put them in our new dataset. Then, we researched each individual’s immigration to those final destinations, largely relying on the Encyclopedia Britannica for their personal journeys.
Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications
ArcGIS is a cloud-based mapping and analysis system, particularly useful for visualizing geographical data. This platform helped us categorize and visualize our data to investigate any patterns in where individuals moved along their paths to LA.
Tableau is an interactive data visualization software and data analytics tool that helps people see and understand data in clear visualizations. With Tableau, we created a map visualization that highlighted emigres' paths to LA, accounting for stops they made along the way.
Our Dataset
Our Dataset
This structured dataset includes information regarding prominent European immigrants’ paths from Europe to Los Angeles during the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. It utilizes nominal and interval data. Each immigrant is listed individually, followed by their native country, their stops between Europe and Los Angeles (if any), their year of arrival to Los Angeles, the coordinates of their Los Angeles homes, and their location as of 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, and 1960. Their names and locations are nominal data. The coordinates of their Los Angeles addresses are interval data. The data is listed in chronological order by year arrived in LA. The primary audience for this project is likely an educated person interested in any of the following topics: migration and assimilation to Los Angeles, film and music history, the Golden Age of Hollywood, or anything else related.
This dataset provides a valuable look into the geographic and temporal trends of immigration among some of the prominent European artists and intellectuals who fled Europe.
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