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
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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