I've just been looking at "Chiffres et Cartes" which has lots of earlier
examples: Guerry is a key name.
JOHN BIBBY
On 6 December 2010 19:32, Macfarlane, Alison <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> There is no doubt that Florence Nighingale's rose diagram was an excellent
> and innovatory way of presenting the data about the appalling mortality in
> the hospital at Scutari, but it also isn't true that she was 'the first to
> use a statistical graphic as a call to action', or the first to use circular
> graphs. For example, there are good examples of use of graphs to highlight
> public health problems in the reports of the General Register Office,
> prepared by her friend William Farr, and examples of use of circular graphs
> in his report of the 1848-49 cholera epidemic.
>
> Alison Macfarlane
>
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> Subject: Also - Florence Nightingale on the Beauty of Diagrams
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> And the Beauty of Diagrams features Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram on
> Thursday 9 December at 8.30pm on BBC4.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgqlq
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> All the best
> Michelle
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