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Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale was also responsible for what statistical developments?

Question #149501. Asked by psnz.
Last updated Jul 13 2023.
Originally posted Jul 12 2023 8:13 PM.

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Florence Nightingale was not only brave but brilliant. She developed a statistical method called the Nightingale rose diagram. The diagram used statistics to visualize the data to make it easier to understand.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

Here is an example of one of her diagrams to track soldier mortality.

link https://www.maharam.com/stories/sherlock_florence-nightingales-rose-diagram

Response last updated by BigTriviaDawg on Jul 12 2023.
Jul 12 2023, 8:18 PM
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The chart she devised was also called the coxcomb chart and is considered the forerunner of the pie chart we see so regularly now. Florence recognised that presenting data in a visual manner would be much easier for laymen, i.e. the public, to understand. She commented 'Printed tables and all-in double columns, I do not think anyone will read. None but scientific men ever look in the Appendix of a Report'. link https://www.datacamp.com/blog/florence-nightingale-pioneer-of-data-visualization

Jul 13 2023, 2:13 AM
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