This file compiles 7 datasets about the Broad St Pump and Grand Experiment cases in London (Snow, 1855).
The documentation is available at:
The Geoda script is available at:
Overview of data
| File | Description | Site |
|---|---|---|
| 1.deaths | Individual deaths | Snow1 |
| 2.deaths_by_bldg | Deaths aggregated to buildings | Snow2 |
| 3.deaths_by_block | Deaths aggregated to blocks | Snow3 |
| 4.pumps | 6 pumps in the Broad St. area | Snow4 |
| 5.deaths_by_bsrings | Deaths aggregated to 5m rings around Broad St pump | Snow5 |
| 6.deaths_by_otherrings | Deaths aggregated to 10m rings around other pumps | Snow6 |
| 7.subdistricts | London subdistricts as of 1855 with data | Snow7 |
References
Arribas-Bel, D., de Graaff, T., & Rey, S. J. (2017). Looking at John Snow’s Cholera map from the twenty first century: A practical primer on reproducibility and open science. In Regional Research Frontiers- Vol. 2 (pp. 283-306). Springer, Cham. Data can be downloaded from Dani Arribas-Bel’s ‘reproducible john snow’ BitBucket repository at https://bitbucket.org/darribas/reproducible_john_snow/src/master/.
Chave, S. P. W. (1958). Henry Whitehead and Cholera in Broad Street. Medical History, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 92-108.
Coleman, T. (2019). Causality in the Time of Cholera: John Snow as a Prototype for Causal Inference. Working paper. Available at SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3262234. Data can be downloaded from https://github.com/tscoleman/SnowCholera (last accessed September 2, 2020).
Coleman, T. (2020). John Snow, Cholera, and South London Reconsidered. Working paper. Available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3696028. Data can be downloaded from https://github.com/tscoleman/SnowCholera (last accessed September 2, 2020).
Koch, T. and K. Denike (2006). Rethinking John Snow’s South London study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation. Social Science and Medicine, 63(1), 271-283. Subdistrict boundary files provided by the author.
Snow, J. (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. London, second edition, Map 1, available at https://www.bl.uk/learning/images/makeanimpact/publichealth/large12735.html.
Snow, J. (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. London, second edition, Map 2, reprinted in Jefferson, Tom (2007), Cattive acque. John Snow e la vera storia del colera a Londra, Rome,IlPensieroScientificoEditore.
Tobler, W. (1994). Snow’s Cholera Map.http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/snow/snow.html. Data files were obtained from the HistData CRAN R package.
Vinten-Johansen, P. (Ed.). (2020). Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents. Broadview Press.
Wilson, R (2011). John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. http://blog.rtwilson.com/john-snows-cholera-data-in-more-formats/. Reprojected data can also be downloaded from Dani Arribas-Bel’s ‘reproducible john snow’ BitBucket repository at https://bitbucket.org/darribas/reproducible_john_snow/src/master/.
Prepared by Center for Spatial Data Science. Last updated September 28, 2020. Data provided “as is,” no warranties.