Mapping the Impact of Class on Titanic Survival

by Matt Ball on April 12, 2012

Esri has a new story map out that gives a map, and class-based, view of the survivability of the Titanic shipwreck, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the sinking. Tracing passengers by city, and whether they lived or died, provides for interesting visual analysis. Among the statistics that Esri highlights is that more than 60% of first-class passengers survived, while only 27% of steerage passengers escaped death. The geovisualization also offers a means to explore the origins based on class, with the widest geographic spread in third class passengers that were mainly immigrants.

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