December
1
2008
Science News has a short little article on Florence Nightengale’s impact on data visualization.
From the article:
…As impressive as her statistics were, Nightingale worried that Queen Victoria’s eyes would glaze over as she scanned the tables. So Nightingale devised clever ways of presenting the information in charts. Statistics had been presented using graphics only a few times previously, and perhaps never to persuade people of the need for social change. In doing so, she ignored the express advice of her mentor, Farr. “You complain that your report would be dry,” he wrote to her. “The dryer [sic] the better. Statistics should be the dryest [sic] of all reading.”…
They have what I’m sure is a fun little interactive graphic of her “coxcomb” info-graphics but I’m not sure it’s helpful.
What do you think?
Tags: florence-nightengale, information-visualization, statistics
New blog post: Florence Nightengale – The Matriarch of InfoViz? http://tinyurl.com/643xh9
Clint
VERY cool blog!
Sarner
You can see the hospital in which she worked during the Crimean War right here in Istanbul.
That’s cool! Have you been?
Hi there,
Just come across via Tamra’s page. Your article about the visualization of Lady of the Lamp sounds interesting! You might find detailed info about this Lady and her life experiences in Istanbul thru my article, that we have a Museum dedicated to her as well:
http://nihalcrossroads.blogspot.com/2007/11/of-lanterns-and-lamps.html
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Nihal, thanks for the link to the article.