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CleanDataDirtyMind t1_j30wdo7 wrote

Reply to John Snow's 1854 cholera map of London that changed epidemiology forever; showing cases concentrated around the Broad Street water pump by wolfden1130

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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CSDragon t1_j30w3wr wrote

Reply to comment by amatulic in How many animals do you eat in your lifetime? by ImplementAny4362

So, yes and no. Linguistically the words "animal" and "meat" are old words, older than the classification of kingdom, phylum, order, etc. And back in the day they referred specifically to land mammals and the flesh thereof. And those definitions of the word are still culturally relevant in some places

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