A little story about the big power of maps 🗺️
🕳️ Cholera was one of the deadliest diseases to affect Britain in the nineteenth century.
💨 At that moment they believed that the disease was transmitted and spread by ‘bad air’ or ‘bad smells’ from rotting organic matter.
💧 In 1854, the physician John Snow made an important contribution to the fight against cholera: he demonstrated the relationship between cholera and contaminated drinking water through his pioneering studies that he showed through a map.
💡 The map he created based on the locations of deaths due to cholera allowed him to see a clear pattern that no one had noticed yet.
And that's what CARTO does: generate impact and reach valuable insights through powerful geospatial analysis 🚀
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📌🗺️ John Snow's historic cholera analysis of Soho, now reproduced in CARTO!
Credited as one of the most pivotal moments in spatial analytics, you can explore the interactive version of the map here 👇
https://hubs.ly/Q02FSvh60
It looks fantastic