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Would be really cool to graph out causes of death over the centuries! Wikipedia cites continous publication from 1527 to 1858[1]. Collecting the data seems daun
by plomme 11mo ago
Would be really cool to graph out causes of death over the centuries! Wikipedia cites continous publication from 1527 to 1858[1]. Collecting the data seems daunting, though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_of_mortality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_of_mortality
- libraryofbabel 11mo agoIt’s already been (at least partly) digitized, e.g. https://www.deathbynumbers.org/data/ https://www.deathbynumbers.org/data/ One thing you will have trouble with however, is that disease categories and the process of determining cause of death changed a great deal from 1527 to 1858. So the categories you're working with aren't stable at all.
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- plomme 11mo agoWow, thanks!