This repository contains the data, the code and the figures used in the blog post "Cities in de Volkskrant 1955-1994" published on KBLab blog [http://lab.kb.nl/]
All the datasets that are used in this example are open and can be downloaded from the flowing sources:
- The population data can be found on the EASY dataverse, it has been created by Ashkpour, A. from the International Institute of Social History [https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:76773]
- The geometries of the municipalities comes from the NLGIS website and are accessed through its API. This website is the result of a project of Richard Zijdeman, Jerry de Vries and Vyacheslav Tykhonov, also from the International Institute of Social History [http://nlgis.nl/]
- The data on media coverage of Dutch cities comes from the dataset I have created during my period of researcher in residence at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, it will be released soon. The data that we used for this analysis can be found in the folder /data of this repository