# -ach, -ingen, -zell Published: 2016-01-11 Live project: [Online version](http://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/) ## Key visuals - Small-multiples grid of hexbin maps of Germany, one per town-name suffix (-dorf, -hausen, -ing), each with place counts A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names. I picked the most interesting suffixes from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsname and cross-referenced them with a list of place names from geonames. Darker colors indicate a higher proportion of place names with the respective suffix in a geographic cell. Hover over a cell for a while to see a tooltip with the place names. It's a dataset I always found interesting to explore; plus, this quick experiment gave me the opportunity to play a bit with a few new tools and libraries I wanted to learn more about. [→ Online version](http://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/) Find the code at: --- [View on truth-and-beauty.net](https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/achingenzell)