Florence Nightingale and Data Visualization

Florence Nightingale

"Florence Nightingale understood the power of visualizing science She illustrated that simple sanitation techniques could stop the spread of infectious diseases. She discovered deaths due to disease were more than seven times the number of deaths due to combat, because of unsanitary hospital conditions.However, knowing numbers alone have limited persuasive powers, Nightingale used her skills in statistical communication to convince the British parliament of the need to act.She avoided the dry tables used by most statisticians of the time, and instead devised a novel graph to illustrate the impact of hospital and nursing practice reform on army mortality rates."

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/florence-nightingale-birthday-power-visualizing-science

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910): An Unexpected Master of Datahttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7660360/

Florence Nightingale understood the power of visualizing sciencehttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/florence-nightingale-birthday-power-visualizing-science

How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Foreverhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-florence-nightingale-changed-data-visualization-forever/

Florence Nightingale: How Data Visualization in the Form of Pie Charts Saved Liveshttps://statisticseasily.com/florence-nightingale/