ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In July 1995 more than 700 people died in a Chicago heat wave, and the neighbourhoods where they died are not the hottest places in the city. Not by day, anyway. This episode joins satellite thermal imagery with 1995 business records and today's map of places to gather, and finds that neither map on its own predicts where the deaths clustered. The overlap does. Four lessons in reading maps: building a proxy out of independent sources, why the available measurement is not the right one, how two weak signals can beat one strong one, and how to test whether a blank space on your map is real.
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United States
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