John Snow: Putting Cholera on the map
Long read
John Snow is famous for identifying the Broad Street Pump as the source of a Cholera outbreak. While this was his Eureka moment, his work went far
beyond this, and went on to turn Cholera from a worldwide pandemic to a preventable disease.
The Woman Who Used Data to Revolutionise Healthcare
Long read
Florence Nightingale shunned her upper class lifestyle to go and save lives. When she came home, she had to put together the right data
to save even more.
The Statistics that Exposed the Slave Trade
Medium read
Thomas Clarkson rode tens of thousands of miles to gather evidence on the cruelties of the slave trade. Read how the data
he uncovered showed slavery to ethically indefensible and economically unviable.