Posts by tag: NLM Historical Division

Data Flash: Exploring Historical Data

Posted by Ann Glusker on March 27th, 2018 0 comments Tags: data, GIS data, historical data, John Graunt, NLM Historical Division, Pew Research Center

It’s so easy to think of data as a modern phenomenon, that we forget that data analysis and data visualization are phenomena which go way back.  A marvelous example is John Graunt’s Bills of Mortality, which this post by John Appleby calls “a 17th century spreadsheet of deaths in London”.  Appleby goes on to do… Read More »

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