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Cholera in London (1854)

1800s, Carriers, Visualization

John Snow’s map is one of the world’s first examples of leveraging visualization to track down the center of an epidemic. He placed bars to represent individual deaths at each location in a London neighborhood to figure out where the outbreak actually came from. Answer? A water pump.

NatGeo activity to understand it better

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John Maeda
Dr. John Maeda
Technologist and Product Experience Leader @Everbridge

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Favorite Quotes

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
—General Eric Shinseki

100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything (pacemakers and anti-lock brakes being notable exceptions).
—Betsy Beyer

You should study risk taking, not just risk management. They’re not separable.
—Nassim Taleb

Elimination is not a point in time; it’s a sustained effort.
—Jacinda Ardern

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