cholera_cases {SnowData}R Documentation

Cholera Cases Dataset

Description

A dataset containing the locations of cholera cases in 1854 Soho, London

Usage

data(cholera_cases)

Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 317 columns:

id

Observation-level identifier

Count

Count of cholera deaths

Angle

Variable used for aligning barcharts along streets, for use when re-creating the barchart approach of John Snow

Easting

X-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection

Northing

Y-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection

Source

John Snow's 1854 cholera outbreak map, georeferenced and processed by Niamh Mimnagh. Original map and data can be found in the public domain at: Snow, J. (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. (Online) Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg


[Package SnowData version 1.0.0 Index]