1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago

Source Notebook

Point location of influenza and pneumatic deaths and weekly mortality data recorded during 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic correlated to 1920 census data for Chicago

Details

Point location of individual cases and weekly data for 496 of the 499 census tracts of Chicago from 1920 of influenza and pneumonia deaths recorded during the 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic within the city of Chicago, correlated to socio-demographic data (population size, illiteracy, unemployment, home ownership, etc).

Examples

Basic Examples

Get an overview of the data:

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$ResourceData[\!$\* TagBox[ RowBox[{"ResourceObject", "[", "\"\<1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago\>\"", "]"}], #& , BoxID -> "ResourceTag-1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago-Input", AutoDelete->True]$][[1]]$

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Visualizations

Plot deaths per 1000 inhabitants for each of the available census tracts:

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$data = {#["Polygon"], 1000*Total[#["TotalPneumoniaAndMortalityDeaths"] /. _Missing :> 0]/#["TotalPopulation"]} & /@ ResourceData[\!$\* TagBox[ RowBox[{"ResourceObject", "[", "\"\<1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago\>\"", "]"}], #& , BoxID -> "ResourceTag-1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago-Input", AutoDelete->True]$];$

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GeoGraphics[{GeoStyling[Opacity[0.8], FaceForm[
Blend[{White, Red}, If[#[[2]] > 0, #[[2]]/Max[data[[All, 2]]], 0]]]], #[[1]]} & /@ data]

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Plot the cases during the 1918 ' Spanish flu' pandemic:

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$GeoGraphics[Point[DeleteMissing[ResourceData[\!$\* TagBox[ RowBox[{"ResourceObject", "[", "\"\<1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago\>\"", "]"}], #& , BoxID -> "ResourceTag-1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago-Input", AutoDelete->True]$, "IndividualCases"][All, "Location"]]], AspectRatio -> 1]$

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Bibliographic Citation

Wolfram Research, "1918 'Spanish Flu' Pandemic In Chicago" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2020)

License Information

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option

Data Resource History

Date Created: 8 April 2020

Source Metadata

Title: Disparities in influenza mortality and transmission related to sociodemographic factors within Chicago in the pandemic of 1918
Creator: Kyra H. Grantz, Madhura S. Rane, Henrik Salje, Gregory E. Glass, Stephen E. Schachterle, Derek A. T. Cummings
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)Original Publication
Date: 29 November 2016
Language: English
Citation:
- Disparities in influenza mortality and transmission related to sociodemographic factors within Chicago in the pandemic of 1918; Kyra H. Grantz, Madhura S. Rane, Henrik Salje, Gregory E. Glass, Stephen E. Schachterle, and Derek A. T. Cummings; PNAS vol. 113 no. 48 13839-13844
  
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612838113
  PubMed: 27872284
  
  https://www.pnas.org/content/113/48/13839/tab-article-info

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Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research