{"repo":"lindbrook/cholera","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/lindbrook/cholera","clone":"git clone https://github.com/lindbrook/cholera.git","description":"R Package for Analyzing John Snow's 1854 Cholera Map","language":"R","stars":141,"topics":["r","cholera","john-snow","public-health","epidemiology","data-visualization","datasets","voronoi","triangulation-delaunay","voronoi-polygons"],"license":null,"category":"analytics","readme_excerpt":"cholera: amend, augment and aid analysis of Snow’s cholera map package features - Fixes two sets of errors in Dodson and Tobler’s 1992 digitization of Snow’s map: 1) three misplaced cases/fatalities and 2) one missing road segment (part of Clifford Street). - “Unstacks” the data in two ways to make analysis and visualization easier and more meaningful. - Computes and visualizes “pump neighborhoods” based on Euclidean distance (Voronoi tessellation) and walking distance. - Overlay graphical elements and features like kernel density estimates, Voronoi diagrams, Snow’s Broad Street neighborhood, and notable landmarks (John Snow’s residence, the Lion Brewery, etc.) via add () functions. - Includes a variety of functions to find and highlight cases, roads, pumps and paths. - Appends street names to the roads data set. - Includes the revised pump data used in the second version of Snow’s map from the Vestry report, which also includes the “correct” location of the Broad Street pump. - Adds two aggregate time series fatalities data sets, taken from the Vestry report. - Support for parallel computation on Linux and macOS; limited support for Windows. - Version \\ = 0.9.1, offers provisional support for (georeferenced) longitude and latitude for data and functions. Details below. getting started To install ‘cholera’ from CRAN: To install the current development version from GitHub: background John Snow’s map, published in his On The Mode Of Communication Of Cholera , of the 1854 choler","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/lindbrook","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/lindbrook/cholera/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}