Abstract

The TOFLIT18 project documents French bilateral international trade flows from the 1710s to the 1820s. This article presents the TOFLIT18 dataset and its exploration tool (the “datascape”). We make four contributions: first, we discuss the institutional framework in which the sources were produced; second, we present our method to standardize the collected data and reduce the variety of commodity names, partners, and measurement units; third, we document how ad hoc classifications can be created to aggregate the dataset; fourth, we describe the use of our datascape in a case study of the loss of Canada by France. We show how the datascape’s interactive data visualizations can help quantitative historians analyze key events in French and European eighteenth century.

摘要

TOFLIT18 项目记录了从 1710 年代到 1820 年代的法国双边国际贸易流量。本文介绍了 TOFLIT18 数据集及其探索工具（“datascape”）。我们做出四项贡献：首先，我们讨论了产生资源的制度框架；其次，我们提出了我们的方法来标准化收集的数据并减少商品名称、合作伙伴和测量单位的多样性；第三，我们记录了如何创建临时分类来聚合数据集；第四，我们描述了我们的数据景观在法国失去加拿大的案例研究中的使用。我们展示了数据景观的交互式数据可视化如何帮助定量历史学家分析 18 世纪法国和欧洲的关键事件。