Replotting John Snow’s Cholera Map

Fall 2021
Geographical Information Systems
Columbia GSAPP

Doctor John Snow changed the world forever with his experiment with data journalism when he discovered the Cholera is a water-borne disease. 

This project recreates his map of Cholera deaths and water pumps, to establish a relationship between the frequency of deaths to proximity to the water pumps.






Map by Kirthi Balakrishnan | Course by Professor Leah Meisterlin