Tag: cholera

John Snow ArcGIS Map

RESOURCE: John Snow ArcGIS Map

This John Snow Cholera map is an ArcGIS version that lets you toggle layers on and off. It also gives a nice description of his process on the left. Snow’s […]

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John Snow Cholera

Illustrated Textbook: The Importance of the Spatial Perspective

Alright! This is what all of you John Snow geeks have been waiting for. Oh, you thought I was talking about Game of Thrones!… …No no…. Dr. John Snow of […]

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VIDEO: How the “ghost map” helped end a killer disease

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities […]

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