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cholera (version 0.4.0)

cholera-package: cholera: amend, augment and aid analysis of John Snow's cholera map

Description

Amend, augment and aid the analysis of John Snow's cholera map.

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Details

Features:

  • Fixes three apparent coding errors in Dodson and Tobler's 1992 digitization of Snow's map.

  • "Unstacks" the data in two ways to improve analysis and visualization.

  • Computes and visualizes pump neighborhoods based on Euclidean (Voronoi tessellation) and walking distance.

  • Ability to overlay graphical features like kernel density, Voronoi diagrams, and landmarks (the plague pit, the Lion Brewery, etc.).

  • Includes a variety of helper functions to find and locate cases, roads, pumps and walking paths.

  • Appends actual street names to roads data.

  • Includes the revised pump data used in the second version of Snow's map from the Vestry report. This includes the "correct" location of the Broad Street pump.

  • Adds two different aggregate time series fatalities data sets, taken from the Vestry report.

  • Computes and visualizes two types of "pump neighborhoods": Voronoi (based on Euclidean distance) and walking (based on computed walking distances).

To learn more, start with the vignettes:

vignette("duplicate.missing.cases")

vignette("unstacking.bars")

vignette("pump.neighborhoods")

vignette("roads")

vignette("time.series")

vignette("kernel.density")