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This ML project is based on Semmelweis data. Semmelweis only published his data as long tables of raw data, but he didn't show any graphs nor confidence intervals. The medical community largely rejected his discovery and in 1849 he was forced to leave the Vienna General Hospital for good. One reason for this was that statistics and statistical arguments were uncommon in medical science in the 1800s. If he would have had access to the analysis we've just put together he might have been more successful in getting the Viennese doctors to wash their hands. This project is focus on the effect of handwashing With the data loaded we can now look at the proportion of deaths over time.