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Dr. Semmelweis and the Importance of Handwashing

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62 reviews
Updated 07/2024
Reanalyze the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing.
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Dr. Semmelweis and the Importance of Handwashing

In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a breakthrough discovery: he discovered handwashing and enforced it at his hospital to save hundreds of lives. Perform data analysis to explore the data behind one of the most important discoveries in modern medicine.

Dr. Semmelweis and the Importance of Handwashing

Reanalyze the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing.
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    Reanalyze the medical data Semmelweis collected using R.

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  • Tamas
    about 7 hours

  • Elena Cecilia
    1 day

  • Diego
    2 days

  • Miguel Angel
    5 days

    Thank you for your help throughout this exercise. I’ve learned how to import data, convert date columns, create new variables with mutate(), calculate proportions, and use group_by() with summarize() to compute group-wise means. Additionally, I practiced comparing data before and after a significant event using logical conditions and improved my data visualization skills with ggplot2. This experience has strengthened my data manipulation and analysis abilities in R.

  • Aayushi
    5 days

  • Aayushi
    5 days

Tamas

Elena Cecilia

Diego

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