Welcome to the Bills of Mortality Project
Between 1603 and 1752, almost 8,000 different weekly bills were published. Death by Numbers aims to transcribe and publish the information in these bills in a dataset suitable for computational analysis.
Explore the data: This is an ongoing project: the datasets are not complete.
Read all about it: Check out our combined post page or go to the individual overviews for historical context, project analyses, and an inside look at our workflows.
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knowing the data
Visualizing the Plague
Transcribing the plague bills means new approaches for data visualization and exploring patterns in the data.