This repository contains a Shiny dashboard built for exploring, querying, and visualizing data from the Chinese Engineers Relational Database (CERD).
The dashboard can be found at https://dhi.ust.hk/cerd.
The dashboard provides an interactive, web-based interface for social historians, digital humanities scholars, and other researchers interested in the networks, careers, and institutional pathways of engineers in modern China.
If you use this dashboard, its underlying raw data, or derivative work in academic or public outputs, please cite:
BibTeX:
@misc{pelzer_cerd_180_2025, title = "Chinese Engineers Relational Database", author = "Pelzer, Thorben", doi = "10.5281/zenodo.4075601", url = "https://dhi.ust.hk/cerd/", publisher = "Zenodo", type = "Dataset", month = "12", year = "2025", edition = "1.8.0",}
This project uses the license specified in this repository. Citation is necessary.
Please check the LICENSE file for details. The raw data is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.