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The article does a great job of describing the visualization surrounding the lynching victims in the south through different methods such as maps and graphs. They begin to describe their goals to find and expose patterns in the lynching victims and cases across the south through proper visualization. I found that the map visual was the most helpful in explaining a pattern of location based “hot-zones” where the larger circles represented greater amounts of cases in a certain region or county. This visualization method presented the data extremely well in order to expose the patterns of increased or decreased cases in different locations. They mention that “Such visualizations are possible because of the datasets that have been gathered by scholars over many decades.” This explains the usefulness of data in cases such as this, more data is always better for creating and building answers to questions we have, the data never goes away.

In NB’s post, they note that “It would be interesting to see if policy during this time had an effect on this instrumental change in executions.” I agree with this because the data was taken over a period of great change in the political scene of the country and I would be intrigued to see if the various civil rights movements over this time had an effect of the amount and severity of lynchings across the region.