PROJECT Dr. Semmelweis and the Discovery of Handwashing Reanalyse the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing.
Project Description In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a breakthough discovery: he discovers handwashing. Contaminated hands was a major cause of childbed fever and by enforcing handwashing at his hospital he saved hundreds of lives.
Guided Unguided
Learn the difference Guided Project In this project, you will reanalyze the medical data Semmelweis collected!
Python Use Python to build a project that has a specific solution, with guided tasks and real-time automated code checks
Project Tasks
- Meet Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis
- The alarming number of deaths
- Death at the clinics
- The handwashing begins
- The effect of handwashing
- The effect of handwashing highlighted
- More handwashing, fewer deaths?
- A Bootstrap analysis of Semmelweis handwashing data
- The fate of Dr. Semmelweis