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HungryLikeTheWolf99 t1_j30n9re wrote

While this was one of the most important scientific observations in history, I still don't know why we're listening to this bastard who knows nothing.

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wolfden1130 OP t1_j30osd7 wrote

The full Guardian piece on the history and map can be found here. Really interesting to see the bars and graphic style chosen by Snow that so beautifully captures the data and trend

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shillyshally t1_j30p33w wrote

Replying to eric5014 (#1,285,396)

Thanks. Will watch it. I knew of the pump before the In Our Time episode - since it is justifiably famous in the annals of medicine and Figuring Things Out - but can never remember his name.

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ShazbotSimulator2012 t1_j30ru72 wrote

Does it not look correct for anyone else?

Viewing it on a W10 PC in Chrome, and every circle is the same size when the article says they should be scaled by death count, and the water pumps themselves aren't appearing on the map, so it's less clear than the original

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Sergmac t1_j30uiqu wrote

Jo(h)n Snow knows something, after all.

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FlatRobots t1_j30vp0n wrote

My statistics professor loved this example of applied statistics and I agree that it's impressive. You don't need to know anything about diseases to see that there's something going on at this water pump.

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CleanDataDirtyMind t1_j30wdo7 wrote

Fun fact, while they knew there was clustering it was two deviations that drove the "proof" home it was the water pumps. One was the absence of cases at the brewery RIGHT next door, where the workers would not drink the water but beer after the fermentation process. And the case on Coventry street, that had no obvious association until the household was interviewed and the lady who had risen in station and lived there turned out to originally be from the neighborhood and insisted that water be brought from that pump because she thought it tasted better. So it was hypothesis, analysis, visualization and thick data investigation.

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Roflbot_FPV t1_j3115nu wrote

I posted a video about this very topic during covid and was downvoted to death. 🤣

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schroedingerx t1_j3139iz wrote

The Broad Street Pump (now moved somewhat from its original location) was the very first thing my wife wanted to see on her first trip to London.

Travel with science nerds. It’s the best.

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alemango2 t1_j31auvv wrote

Only knew about him because Extra Credits made videos about him back when they used to be good, pretty amazing and determined guy ngl, scientific community pretty much put obstacle after obstacle to go agaist him and he still proved them wrong in every situation.

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talligan t1_j31avri wrote

I'm a contaminant hydrogeologist and this was one of the first ever cases linking water contamination of microbes (though they didn't know this at the time) with illness. He's also considered the father of epidemiology.

There's a great book on the story: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map

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throwaway2454838 t1_j31f5mw wrote

He's also responsible for improving relations with the wildlings.

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